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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



17!)7 1897 



HISTORY 



OF 



Columbus Celebration 



Franklinton Geniennia 



BY 



STEPHEN A, FITZPATRICK U. S. MORRIS 



PRICE. - $2,00 



COPYRIGHTED 1897 

COLUMBUS, O 






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I.UCAS SULIvIVANT, FOUNDER OF FRANKLINTON. 



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. . . PRESS OF . . . 

THE NEW FRANKLIN PRINTING COMPANY, 

COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



PREFACE 



The Columbus celebration of the J^ranklinton Centennial, 
September 14, 15 and 16, 1897, was an occasion of such rare 
historical interest that it has seemed to the publishers of this 
volume that the history of that event should take a more 
convenient, if not a more permanent, form than the files of 
the Columbus daily newspapers. Never in the history of 
Ohio's capital has the public mind been turned with such 
veneration to the settlers of Franklinton as it was during 
the weeks of the summer of 1897, culminating in the cen- 
tennial exercises in September. No sooner had the celebra- 
tion been formally determined upon than the tide reminis- 
cence set in. 

Gray hairs became a special badge of honor, and a good 
memory of pioneer days secured to its fortunate possessor a 
circle of eager attendants. Reminiscence became the 
choice morsel in the newspaper's daily menu, and the 
younger generations learned much of local history that they 
had never before heard. The revelation of old things was 
as interesting to the new generation as would have been the 
revelation of new things to the generation past and gone. 

To preserve this picture ot the past, with its modest 
heroes and heroines in homespun, and their struggle to 
transform the forest settlement into a village of civilization, 
with all the guarantees of life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness, is the purpose of this book. To know what the 
pioneers endured and how they struggled for that which is 
ours without an effort, almost without a thought, is an in- 
spiration. To know that, after a hundred years the efforts 
of the pioneers found token of appreciation in speech, in 



song, and a thousand deeds, is at least gratifying. In the 
pages that follow every important detail of the celebration 
is touched, and the history is written with such fullness as 
to give all who participated proper mention. To this is 
added a history of Franklinton, from the laying out of the 
town in 1797, by Lucas Sullivant, through the stirring war 
period, when the town gained its greatest importance, and 
that other period of independent existence on the edge of 
the more flourishing capital city, down to its annexation to 
Columbus in 1870. 

In the preparation of this volume it has not always been 
possible to give credit to the sources of information, and it 
is desired here to acknowledge indebtedness to the Columbus 
Dispatch, the Ohio State Journal, and the Evening Press; 
to Martin's " History of Franklin County, and to Alfred E. 
Lee's comprehensive " History of the City of Columbus." 

STEPHEN A. FITZ PATRICK. 
U. S. MORRIS. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

The Founding of Franklinton. 

Earl}' towns in the Northwest Territory— Lucas Sullivant's first expedi- 
tions — Franklinton site chosen — Flood and change of plat — Offer to 
settlers. 

CHAPTER II. 

Origin and Growth of the Centennial Idea. 

Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society takes the first step — Meeting 
called by Father D. A. Clarke — Committee of one hundred appointed — 
Other Organizations interested - Permanent committees named - A monster 
Press Committee — Progress of committee work — Site selected and date of 
celebration fixed. 

CHAPTER III. 

The First Day. 

The decorations — Appearance of grounds — Exercises at the grounds — 
Speeches by D. J. Clahane, Governor Asa Bushnell, E. C. Irvine (represent- 
ing Mayor Samuel L. Black), and General John Beatty — Sports and races — 
Historical tableaux. 

CHAPTER IV. 

The Second Day. 

Military, civic and industrial parade — Flag raising exercises at Convent 
of the Good Shepherd — Exercises at the grounds — Speeches by Senator 
M. A. Hanna, Bishop John A. Watterson, and Colonel E. L. Taylor — Sports 
in the water and on the track — Historical tableaux repeated — Fireworks 
display. 

CHAPTER V. 

The Third (Pioneer's) Day. 

Notable gathering of old citizens — Speeches by B. F. Martin, Rev. J. H. 
Creighton, and Congressman John J Lentz — The Centennial song, by a 
mixed chorus — Sham battle in the rain — Abrupt ending of celebration — 
" Frank linton's Colors" — Cost of the Centennial celebration — West Side 
citizens' resolutions of thanks. 



CHAPTER VI. 

The EXHTRIT OF Reijcs. 

Great interest in locating relics — Warren K. Mooreliead chosen secre- 
tary of the connnittee — Location and arrangement of the display — Activity 
of the State Archaeological and Historical Society — An old-time quilting, 
weaving and spinning bee — List of articles exhibited. 

CHAPTER Vn. 

The Growth of Frankijnton. 

The first settlers — Sickness and discouragement — Lucas Sullivant first 
in every enterprise — First salt well — Organization of Franklin County and 
its four townships — First court — First jail — First court-house — First 
grist mill —First school-house — Early school teachers' pay— Dr. James 
Hoge, the pioneer preacher — First church organization — The first pastoral 
call — First church building —The Freeman's Chronicle, the first newsT 
paper— Editorial trials — James B. Gardiner, the first editor — The first 
mail service. 

CHAPTER VHI. 

The War Period in Franklinton. 

Character of the town — Laying out of Columbus as the capital — The 
outbreak of the war with England - Franklinton a rendezvous and military 
headquarters for General William Henry Harrison - General Harrison's 
conference with the neutral Indians — Incidents of the campaign — Death 
of Mrs. Lucas Sullivant — War prices. 

chaptf;r IX. 

After the War. 

Effort to annex Franklinton to Columbus — A successful protest — First 
bridge over the Scioto — Scioto Floods — Franklinton's burying ground — 
Removal of county seat to Columbus — Franklin township justices — 
Franklinton annexed to Columbus — After annexation. 

CHAPTER X. 

Some Notable Pioneers. 

Lucas Sullivant, the founder; his home life — William S. Sullivant, the 
scientist — Michael L. Sullivant, the farmer - Joseph Sullivant, the pub- 
licist — Lyne Starling — Rev. Dr. James Hoge — Dr. Sanmel Parsons — 
Gustavus Swan — John Kerr — Dr. Lincoln Goodale — John Brickell. 

CHAPTER XI. 

PERvSONAL Reminiscence.s. 

Mrs. Joel Searles' recollections — The Brotherlin family — Alum Creek 
settlements — Mrs. Matthias Martin's experiences — Mrs. Margaret Flem- 
ing's retrospect — Pearly settlers at Headley's Corners — The Baughman- 
Dague settlement — Mrs. Emily Merion-Stewart's remini.scences — The first 
physician, and the earl}^ modes of treatment. 



CHArXKR xir. 

RiooRAPincAi. Sketchp:s. 

Hon. M. A. Haiiiia — Hon. Samuel J. Swartz — Milo B. Lee — D. J. 
Clahane — Samuel Borger ~ Hon. Gilbert H. Stewart — Rev. Dennis A. 
Clark — Charles I'\ Kipp — William Brixner— Frank Wehr — General Jthn 
Beatty — Hon. Rmilius O. Randall - Richard E. Jones - Samuel G. Mc- 
Clure — Gustav Maier — Frank N. Davey — Richard Sinclair — C. M. vSav- 
age, M. D.— William D. Bresnahan — Patrick Kelly — P/lward K. Lerch — 
Col. James Kilhcmrne, sr. - Col. James Kilbourne, jr. — Hon. James H. An- 
derson -- Hon. John G. Deshler — Henry A. Harmon— James Davey — 
Washington Gladden, D. D. — Daniel McAlister — Hon. Edward J. Brae -en 
— Lorenzo D. Hagerty— Michael J. Kienle — Charles H. Brown — Benjamin 
F. Martin — Frederick Lutz - William Federer — Nicholas A. Court— James 
Burns — Will W. Homes, M. D.— Colonel E. L. Taylor— Stephen A. Fitz-. 
Patrick — Professor J A. Shawan Christopher Ross— Samuel A. Kinnear 
— Willium S Tussing — Oliver M. Evans — Judge William T. Martin — 
General C. C. Walcutt — Hon. B. F. Gayman. 



FRANKLINTON CENTENNIAL 



CHAPTER I. 



THE FOUNDING OF FRANKLINTON. 



Fraiikliiitoii v as one of the early towns of the jSTorthwest Terri- 
tory. The first was ]\I arietta, fonnded in 1788. C'ohimbia fol- 
lowed in the i-anie year and then, in the order given, Cincinnati 
Manchester, Gallipolis, Hamilton, Dayton, Franklin, Chillicothe, 
Cleveland and F)-ankiinton, the last named having been founded 
in 17!>7. 

Tli'^ li( nor of founding Fraid-dinton, now a })rogressive part of 
Colli luhns, l)elongs to Lucas Sulllvant, who was by birth a Vir- 
ginian. l>eing in early life cast on his own resources, he wisely 
litted ]iin;self for surveying, then a lucrative and promising em- 
ployment, and located in Kentucky which was then a part of Vir- 
ginia. Thus- when Virginia authorized the appointment of a 
•UM'iyor of the lands which, in her cession to the general govern- 
n.enr, she had reserved for her soldiers, and when Colonel Richard 
C .\ndcvson had been selected for that office, Lucas Sullivant 
was in. ])Osition to profit by the opportunity. He was appointed, 
togethei- with Xathaniel Massie, Duncan McArthur, John 
O'lnnni 'U, Arthur Fox and John Beasley, a deputy surveyor, 
and to him was assigned the northern portion of the Virginia 
nnlitarv district. 

]\rr. Sidlivant made a nund)er of expeditions into the new terri- 
tory, the first probably as early as 1702, but it seems that he did 
not i)enetratc as far noi'th as Columluis till 1795. Tn the spring 
of that yc^ar, he appeared at the head of a party of twenty Ken- 
tukians on Deer ci'eek, Madison county. A skirmish with the 



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Indian-^, in wliit-li the whites lost two men, drove tlieiu westward 
and ])rol)al)Iy revealed to Mr. Sullivaiit, earlier than it would 
otherwise have been, the locality whi(di was to be his future 
iiouie. That was the forks of the Seioto aud the fertile basin 
inmiediatelv to the south. He made this the rendezvous for a 
.-ubse(iiieiit ex])edition, and, when the business of that expedition 
was done, he returned to this site, located in his own rioht the 
fertile tract, and in August, 1797, laid out the town of Franklin- 
lon, notino- the luxuriance of the vegetation and the eligibility of 
ihe locality as a future seat of population. Perhaps he looked 
longingly across the Scioto to the high banks where Columbus 
has since grown up, but that land w^as denied to him for the reason 
that it was not within the Virginia military district, which he was 
empowered to survey. Besides, the eastern bank of the Scioto 
was, like the elevation to the west, thickly wooded, wdiile between 
the hills, stretched a plain, the fertility of which the Indians had 
abundantly proved by maize-planting and growing. The dis- 
advantage of the lowlands was revealed to him the following 
year when the high water, known as the flood of 1798, sub- 
merged a good ]iortion of his original jjlat. But this did not 
turn him from his purpose. Instead, he changed his plat, the 
outlines of the town being made conformable to the boundaries 
of the higher ground. Here, about three-quarters of a mile west 
of the river at Broad street, he erected the iirst l)rick dwelling in 
the county and established his home. 

To promote settlement, Mr. Sullivant offered to donate to any 
who should become actual residents, lots on a certain street 
which was then and still is called Gift street and which was within 
one block of the western limit of the town. One family had 
come in the autumn of 1797 and there were several additional 
arrivals durino- the winter andspring following. In 1798, James 
Scott opened a small store and thus formally began the perma- 
nent trade in the upper part of the Scioto valley and the commer- 
cial life of the present city of Colundjus. 

How Franklinton grew, became during the last war with Eng- 
land the most important military ]iost in the West and then, 
coincident with the founding of Columbus on the much-talked-of 
''high bluffs" opjjosite began its decline, finally losing its identity 



us a town, is left for subsequent chapters. Suffice it here simply 
to outline briefly the circumstances of its founding and to add 
that Franklinton existed as a locality, though never as a numici- 
pality, for nearly three-quarters of a century. Kilbourn's 
Gazetteer for 1821 says it was not Nourishing because of the 
proximity of Columbus. The 1829 edition of the same work says 
that Franklinton then contained about 40 houses, one store and a 
large tlnuriiig mill while, adjoining it on the east, was a large 
prairie of -100 acres of exuberant fertility. Franklinton con- 
tinued to exist, growing with and because of the. growth of 
Columbus. In 1870, at the time of the annexation to the city of 
tlie district west of the river, the original territory of Franklinton 
had a considerable population and between it and the rivel* an- 
other hamlet or suburb, long called Middletowu, had grown up. 
The great growth of that section of the city, however, has been 
since annexation, the population now aggregating about 12,000 
Franklinton, as such, is departed, but the memory of its pioneers 
who struggled bravely on amid the hardships of a forest settle- 
ment is cherished as one of the glories of Columbus. 



CHAPTER 11. 



ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE CENTENNIAL IDEA. 



Though th^re had been several i)rior suggestions of a celebra- 
tion of the centennial anniversary of the founding of Franklin- 
ton, the first actual movement to that end was made at a meeting 
of the Father Matliew Total Abstinence Society of the West Side, 
held early in June, 1896. At that meeting the attention of the 
society was called to the approach of the century mark, and a 
motion was made that the society celebrate the event. The min- 
utes of the society do not show any action. The matter was 
discussed at subsequent meetings, and for almost a year nothing 
definite was decided upon, until finally Father D. A. Clarke, of 
the Holy Family Church, decided upon calling a meeting of West 
Side citizens to consider the project and, if it were deemed advis- 
able, to take apporpriate action. Thus on May 17, 1897, the fol- 
lowing bearing the signatures of Father Clarke and other promi- 
nent residents of that part of C^olumbus which is within the old 
boundaries of Franklinton was issued : 

Dear Sir : The one hundredth anniversary of the foundation 
of Franklinton occurs in August of this year. It is very proper 
that the occasion should be commemorated in a becoming man- 
ner. The completion of a century of wonderful growth and de- 
velopment of the original portion of the capital city, the strug- 
gles of the pioneers, and, above all, our patriotic instincts, should 
prompt us to arrange a celebration that would become a subject 
of historical interest in Columbus. 

We, residents of the West Side, and descendants of the early 
settlers, are expected to take the lead in this matter and not await 
the action of the citizens of other portions of the city. With this 
object in view a meeting of delegates of the various organizations 
connected with the Holy Family Church was held recently at 
the call of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society, and it 



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was nnaiiiiiioiislv decided to call a public meeting of the profes- 
gioiial and business men and residents in general of the West Side, 
in the market hall, to arrange for the celebration. 

We therefore extend a cordial invitation to you and other inter- 
ested citizens of th{> West Side, to a mass meeting to be held at 
the above named place on Monday evening, May 24, 1897. 

The time is short, and if we are to have a celebration the com- 
mittees should begin work innnediately. Do not fail to be pres- 
ent. RespectfuHy, 

J). A. Clarke, P. J. Finneran, T. C. Lawlei;, T. F. AYalsli, J. 
Atkinson, A. Murphy, J. ]\raher, E. Jioland, J. J. Burke, J. 
Downey, A. N. Riff, J. Ilannan. 

Tlie call resulted in an enthusiastic meeting. Father Clarke 
called the meeting to order and briefly stated the object of the 
gathering. ]\lr. Jonas Wilcox was chosen Permanent (Chairman 
and Mr. Carlos Trevitt, Secretary. The tenor of the discussion 
was favorable, all the speakers urging the necessity of making 
the celeln-atiou, not sectional, but of the whole city. The out- 
come of the meeting was the appointment of a committee to lay 
the project before the Business IMen's League, the Board of 
Trade, the Mayor, the City Council, the Board of Public Works 
and the State officials and to enlist their co-operation in the pro- 
jiosed celebration. That committee consisted of the following: 
Mr. Daniel McAllister, Bev. D. A. Clarke, Dr. F. J. Collison, 
Christopher Boss, Randall Baker, Dennis J. Clahane and Jonas 
Wilcox. Then the meeting adjourned to meet at the call of the 
Chairman. 

The first meeting of any importance hekl at the call of Chair- 
man Wilcox was on the evening of -Tune 15, when about 20 citi- 
zens of the West Side gathered at the market hall and discussed 
the proposed celebration. Among those present were Father 
Clarke, 1). J. Clahane, Chris Ross and IT. M. ^NfcLarren. Upon 
the suggestion of Father Clarke, a conunittee of 100, one for each 
year, was ai)])ointed, with the understanding that, to facilitate 
the work, the conunittee of 100 would be divided into sub-com- 
mittees. T'he committee as sub-di\ide(l consisted of the follow- 
ing: 

T]xecutive Conmiittee — D. J. Clahane, Chairman; S. J, 



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Swartz, Secretary; D. A. MeAlister, C. Ross, L. H. Cott, B. B. 
IS^aylor, Dr, Lippett, Rev. D. A. Clarke, Rev. W. L. Lemon, Rev. 
P. M. Leslie, Rev. A^. C. Helfricli, W. C. Ciissins, \V. H. Van 
Sickle, Jonas Wilcox and H. M. McLarren. 

Finance — D. J. C'laliane, L. H. Cott, Chris Ross, W. C. Cus- 
sins, Jonas Wilcox, Samnel Borger and H. T. Linke. 

(J rounds. Buildings and Lights — Dr. B. F. Lippett, Dr. A. B. 
Richardson, Perrv Pearee, Charles Cussins, John Andrix and 
John Plaistcd. 

Music — H. M. McLarren, W. S. Tussing, L. F. Ritter, Thomas 
Flemming, Dr. R. G. Warner, P. J. Finneran and Dr. Steward. 

Privileges— (\ Ross, Dr. F. J. CoUison, M. J. [N'olan, Edward 
Heinrich and Ifarrv Michaels. 

Transportation — L. H. Cott, Edward E. Learch, J. IST. Ben- 
nett, Thomas Ross and J. ^. Alltop. 

Printing and Advertising — R. L. Baker, Charles Kipp, Dr. J. 
A. Park, Fred Lapp, Jesse Rowe and P. Shapter. 

Decorations — W. C. Cussins, Mark Elleman, B. B. j^aylor, 
Carlos Trevitt and John Atkinson. 

Hotels and Entertainment — Thomas E. Wright, Eldon F. 
Smith, Dr. J. B. Beerv, W. Edmiston and C. F. Lentz. 

Program— Rev. D. A. Clarke, Rev. N. C. Helfrich, John 
Short, Dr. H. AVhitehead, Will Smith and Edward Iveenan. 

Historical Relies — D. A. McAlister, Jonas Wilcox, Richard 
St.. Clair, Robert Rider, W. T. Malloy, Nicholas Schwartz and 
Henry Linaman. 

Invitation — Dr. F. A. Rukenhrod, Frank I. Brown, Dr. J. D. 
Smith, T. C. Lawler, George Rice, Rev. T. M. Leslie and Rev. W. 
L. Lemon. 

Fireworks — B. B. Xaylor, ]S^. Swartz, Patrick Lyons, John D. 
Evans, James Davy and D. B. Ong. 

The effort to enlist the aid of city officials and business bodies 
was successful. Daniel McAlister reported that he had laid the 
matter before President Gilbert H. Stewart, of the Board of 
Trade, and that the latter had promised to appoint a committee 
of the board to assist in the preparations. Christopher Ross re- 
ported that Mayor Samuel L. Black, the Board of Public Works 
and the City Council were all favorably disposed and that the 



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last-iiiinicd Itody li;i(l ailoptcil a resolution autlioviziiiii- the Mayor 
to aj)j)oiiit a special cominittee of citizens to co-operate. Afr. 
Koss also reported that he had called upon Dr. A. .B. liichardson, 
Superintendent of the State Hospital, and had received assurances 
from that official that the iii'ounds west of the hospital could be 
secured as a site for the celebration. Mr. Ross also stated that 
he had received enconragenient from nearly everyone with whom 
he had spoken in rciiard to tlu^ matter, and felt hopefid that a suc- 
cessful celebration could be arranged. 

The next im])ortant meeting was held in the rooms of the Board 
of Ti-ade. 'riiei'e wei'c present members of that body and of 
the Ihisiness Glen's League, the general citizens' committee 
wlii(di had been appointed by flavor Black and representatives of 
the committee of one hundred. This joint committee organized 
l)v electing D. J. Clahane, (^hairman, and Judge Samuel Swartz, 
Secretary. The executive^ committee was constituted as follows: 
I). .1. Clahane and Christopher Ross, of the West Side commit- 
tee; (leorge W. Bright, Business Men's League; F. W. Hubbard, 
Board of Trade, and John G. Deshler, Mayor's committee. Sub- 
commit^tees were ci'eateil and (diairmen ^^'ere selected for them as 
follows- Reception. E. O. Randall; Finance, R. M. Rownd; 
Historic R(dics, Daniel ^EcAlister; Program and Speakers, 
Judg" Cil'iert II. Stewart; Music, Judge Tod B. (lalloway; Dec- 
orations, Colonel George D. Freeman; Parade, Colonel .V. G. 
Patton; Amusements, Ex-lMayor George J. Karb; Advertising 
aiid J^rinting, William G. Benham; Invitations, Colonel J. L. 
Rodgers; (jrounds and Buildings, Dr. A. B. Richardson; Privi- 
leges, Christopher Ross; Hotels and Entertainment, Ralph Rick- 
ly; Fireworks, George Schoedinger; Transjiortation, Thomas E. 
Knauss. 

Tlie full conunittees, as-Hnally constitute(l, were as follows: 
On Reception — Hon. K .(). Randall, Chairman; Daniel J. 
Ptyan, ^\Iajor Starling Sullivant, Harvey Bancroft, Judge James 
Anderson, A. D. Rodgers, Robert S. Xeil, X. B. Abbott, William 
Felton, Henry C. Taylor. T. H. Ricketts, I. B. Potts, E. X. Hug- 
gins, Frank Hayden, O. A. Miller, Jerry P. Bliss, H. S. Bronson, 
John J. I^ngh, Fred Lazarus, J. L. Trauger, F. C. Hubbard, Rev. 
James Poindexter, A. 7L Smythe, George T. Spahr, R. Gilbert 



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AVanirr, S. X. Cook, D. K. Watson, Rev. W. E. Moore, Rollin F. 
Crider, Dr. B. F. Lippitt, J. X. Bennett, Urban H. Hester, John 
W. Sliapter, George Evans, Elden Sniitli, L. H. Cott, Dr. W. 
Edniiston and Rev. D. A. Clarke. 

On I'iiiai'.cp — Jl. M. Rownd, Chairman; D. J. Clahane, Samuel 
Borger, L. .11. Cott, II. F. Linke, Christo])her Ross, W. C. Cus- 
sins, Jonas Wilcox, George W. Bright, J. F. Oglevee, George AV. 
Sinks, L. D. Hagerty, N. B. Abbott and Fred Cronghton. 

On Historic Relics — Daniel McAlister, Chairman; Appleton 
J. Ide, S:arling Snllivant, Colonel James Ivilbonrne, R. M. 
Rev va]. J. Linn Rodgers, P. H. Bruck, Moses H. Xeil, Allen W. 
Fhi.i'iiiini, Colonel E. L. Taylor, H. T. Chittenden, Gns S. Par- 
son, Ilnrvtv Bancroft, W. H. Restieux, John S. Abbott, John 
Joyce, s]-., Dr. Starling Loving, Alfred Kelly, Dr. J. B. Schnel- 
ler, E. O. Randall, Michael Halm, Adam Stevens, Colonel S. X. 
Field, John J. Ucinhard, L. F. Fieser, O. C. Hooper, J. K. 
McDomdd, \y. V). Prickell, John A. Knster, Ed Hennick, J. K. 
Jones, A. X. A\Mjiting, Edward Otstot, S. G. McCliire, DeWitt C. 
Jones, Leo Flirsch, J. B. K. Connelly, Richard Sinclair, Jonas 
Wilccx, Robert l^ider. ^V. T. Malloy, Nicholas Schwartz, Henry 
C. Lanman, Hil. C McAlister, James Poindexter, John ]\I. 
Pugh, H. T. Benham, R. J. Bancroft and Warren K. l\[oreliead. 

On Program and Sjieakers — Jndge Gilbert H. Stewart, Chair- 
man; Dr. H. AVb.ilcliead, Secretary; Rev. D. A. Clarke, William 
B. Smith, Edward C. Kecnan, L. P. Stephens, Marcus C. Dickey, 
Henry F. Barlow, Javed P. Bliss, Oliver H. Perry, C. X. Helfrick 
and Jolm Sluirt. 

On 3[usic — Judge Tod B. Galloway, Chairman; W. H. Lott, 
O. E. D. Barron, Theodore H. Schneider, Mrs. Ella May Smith, 
Edward Lerch, Phili]i H. Bruck, John Bayer, Mrs. J. A. Sha'wan, 
Fred Neddermeyer, Albert Corrodi, ]\Iiss Anna ]M. Osgood, 
George Freewald, Mrs. Amor Sharp, Theodore Wolfram, Mrs. 
Belle M. Miles, John F. Ransom, H. M. Mcl^rren, W. S. Fus- 
sing, Lou. F. Ritter, Thomas Fleming, Dr. G. R. Warner, P. J. 
Finnercn and Dr. Stewai-t. 

On Decorations — George D. Freeman, Chairman; Gus Krag, 
.Ma)-K Elleman, Joseph Weil, B. B. Xaylor, S. X. Cook, John 
Arkinson, James Elliott, J. H. Moler, D. H. Baker, S. A. Kin- 



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jic.ir. F. A. Sells, Kimciic Cilock, II. Sehreincr, Carlos E. Trevitt, 
l!d JS'. Ackcniiiin. John Kspcr, jleiirv Sicbert, Joseph Vonarx, 
Otto II. Arinl>nister, Frank JIall, W. CJ. Bowhmd, James Batter- 
•<vu, I'hil. Iv. (Mover, (ieorge (". Krauss, John Joyce, jr., L. E. 
\'alentine, Ah Corrodi, Frank B. Koch and Charles Peters. 

On Anmsenients — (ieorge J. Karb, Chairman; Al G. Field, 
I'irst Vice Chairman; Colonel S. X. Cook, Second Vice Chair- 
iian; flohn (J. Ueinhai'ih L. K. Valentine, W. S. Tussing, Wil- 
liaiii 11. Smitli, J\Iajor Speaks, Captain Stewart, John Y. Bassell, 
Carl Kampniann., Kichard Owens, Samuel Pentland, H. M. Mc- 
Laren, Delbert B. Ong-, Oscar Scott, Michael Daugherty, Bo. 
Xeedham, J. A. Delamere, John J. Cliester, Creorge Bell, R. H. 
Larry, flames Iveor, Henry Innis, William Tliompson, Lonis F. 
l^ider, Toby Deck(>r, Henry Olidiansen, jr., Lou Lepps and Dr. 
W. W. Homes. 

On Advertising and Printing — W. G. Benham, Chairman; 
Fred 11. Tibbets, Secretary; Charles F. Kipp, George Dun, Dr. J. 
A. Park. S. :\L Lew, R. L. Baker, H. T. Benham, Pearley Shap- 
ter, -'1. H. Il< tlman, C. F. Fi?her, E. P. Gerhold, Jesse Rowe, 
Henry R;'inhard.and Alex. McKenna. 

On Invitations — Colonel J. L. Rogers, Chairman; John G. 
Deshh r, D. J. Clahane, G. H. Stewart, Tod B. Galloway and R. 
^I. [u wild. 

On (iroiinds and Buildings — Dr. A. B. Richardson, Chair- 
man; Christopher Ross, Vice Chairman; Dr. B. F. Lippett, Perry 
Pearce, Charles Cussins, John Plaisted, Eldon F. Smith, M. G. 
Griffith, John Andi'ix and Louis Evans. 

On 1*1 ihveges— Christopher Ross, Chairman; H. M. McLaren, 
Oliver M. Evans, Thomas Murnane, John Trott, Dr. F. J. Colli- 
son, Harry B. Michaelis, Edward Heinrich, Thomas Xolan, Clias. 
E. Grant and (Tias. F. Kij)p. 

On Hotels and Entertainment — Ralph Richly, Chairman; 
Thomas E. Wright, Eldon F. Smith, Dr. J. E. Beery, Dr. W. E. 
Edmiston, C. F. Lentz, C. S. Amniel, William Maize, W. E. 
Joseph and C. W. Sharp. 

On Fireworks — George Schoedinger, Chairman; Dr. T. K. 
Wissinger, John Chapin, Frank Schille, D. L. Sleeper, R. E. 
Jones, Veit K:oemer, Z. L. White, J. E. Elliott, B. B. Xaylor, 



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Nick Schwartz, Patrick Lyons, John 1). Evans, James Davy and 
D. B. Ong. 

On Transportation — T. E. Knauss, Chairman; AV. II. Fisher 
of the Hocking A^illey; J. M. Harris, of the Pan Handle; A. L. 
Hillearv, of the Big Fonr; Dan. S. Wilder, of the Baltimore and 
Ohio; Allen Hnll, of the Xorfolk and Western; John T. Gamble, 
of the Toledo and Ohio Central; W. W. Daniel, of the Columbus, 
Sandusky and Hocking; L. H. Cott, E. F. Learch, Thomas Koss, 
J. X. Bennett and J.N. Alltop.. 

The hrst dates proposed for the centennial were August 24, 25 
and 26. It was desired to celebrate in the anniversary month 
and also at such a time that the presence of the school children 
could be secured. There was also a desire that ex-President Ben- 
jamin Harrison should attend and deliver an address. To that 
end a committee was appointed, but it was found, on communicat- 
ing with him, that it would be im])Ossible for him to participate 
in the celebration. At subsequent meetings of the committee it 
was decided to have a historical parade, an Indian sham battle 
and tableaux illustrative of the perils and hardships of the 
pioneers. The ])rinting and distribution of 50,000 copies of a 
souvenir program was authorized. The selection of a site for the 
celebration was long delayed, but was finally decided in favor of 
the natural amphitheatre to the west of the hospital for the insane. 
The Highland avenue school building was selected as a rejiository 
for the historical relics and the dates of the celebrAti^i were, 
owing to inability sooner to complete arrangements, chau^i^-^ 
September 14, 15 and 16. -r^^ 

One of the first things decided upon by the committee on print- 
ing and advertising was to extend an invitation to everybody in 
{ 'entral Ohio to take part in the celebration and "to be with and 
for us.'' I'his invitation included 36 counties containing a popu- 
lation of ni()r(> than a million, and about 250 newspaper towns 
and cities. Then it was decided to make the editor of every 
newspaper published in the 36 counties a member of the commit- 
tee and Chairman Benham undertook to carry out the wishes of 
the committee. The undertakins: was a big one, as the names 
of all the editors, together with the papers they represent, had 
first to be secured. When this had been accomplished, Mr. Ben- 




' SHADY LANE." ENTRANCE TO THE I.UCA8 SULLIVANT HOMESTEAD. 



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ham foiiiul liimself in possession of about 400 names. In all 
probability so large a press committee as this was never before 
appointed in this or any other conntry on any occasion. 

The next thin_<2,- in oriU-r was to write to each of the editors a let- 
ter descriptive of the proposed celebration in order to interest all 
of them in the work. Chairman Benham drafted the letter and 
the committee a})proved the work. Then Mr. Beidiam inter- 
ested Professor AV. II. Ilartsongh, proprietor of Hartsough's Bus- 
iness College, in the w^ork and that gentleman kindly volunteered 
the services of a number of his bright young lady pupils to make 
iy I )(' written copies of the letter and address the envelopes. Six 
of the young ladies gladly consented to conrrilmte their share to- 
Avard making the centennial celebration a success. The young 
ladies were the Misses Carrie Thrall, N^ellie Miller, Daisy Arm- 
strong, Grace Doyle, Eose Welper and Ella Ferrel. Under the 
rules of the college no carbon copies could be made. Each letter 
had to be typewritten separately and the girls soon found they 
had undertaken a big job, but they kept at it patiently until the 
task was tinishod. Following is a copy of the letter: 

Dear Sir: On next September 14, 15 and 16, the City of Co- 
hnnbus will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of 
Franklinton, from Avhich beginning the present city of Colum- 
bus has grown. The arrangements foi' this centennial are in 
cliargc of committees composed of about three hundred promi- 
nent business and professional men, who have arranged for one 
of the greatest demonstrations that has ever taken place in the 
liistorv of ('olumbus. It will last three days and will have in- 
iiinnerable amusement features, parades, sham battle, games, 
tableaux, etc., as well as the exhibition of many historical relics. 
This centennial celebration wdll be one of the most interesting 
events in the history of Columbus, and it is our desire to have 
friends from towns adjoining Columbus enjoy it with us. We 
have arranged to look after all visitors who may come here, so 
that we may be sure they will have a good time. We would like 
to have you come to Columbus during the centennial, and want 
you to be the guest of our newspaper committee. AVe will have 
headquarters and furnish you with a badge upon arrival in the 
city, which will give you the freedom of cA-erything pertaining to 
the centennial. 



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Would von kindly let ns licar from you, as to whether you can 
he with us, and if so on what dates. We send you by this mail 
copies of daily papers which will give you a better idea of the 
extent of the enterprise. 

AV. G. BENHAM, Chairman. 

FRKl) II. TIJ31M^7n\S, Secretary. 

The following is a complete list of the members of the big press 
connnittee, together with the papers they represent and the towns 
and cities in which they reside: 

('. K. Peoples, Democrat; S. F. Smith, Leader; Union Print- 
ing Co., Tribune-Telegraph, all of Pomeroy, O.; Union Printing- 
Co., Republican Herald, Middleport; De Long and Dozier, X 
Rays, Crooksville; P. M. Cullinan, Herald and Tribune Co., New 
Lexington; John C. Fleming, People's Advocate and W. H. 
Shriver, Journal, Shawnee; AV. J. Mortal, Press, Somerset; D. IST. 
Belt, Herald and JSTews, Thorn ville; John A. Jones, Courier 
AVatchman, and AA". A. McKenzie, ISI^ews, Waverly; Homer 
Thrall, Times, Carey; AVilcox and Holmes, Entei*prise, Nevada; 
Charley Griffith, Leader, Sycamore; H. A. Tracht, Chief, R. D. 
Dunim A: Son, Union and Pietra Cunes, Republican, Upper San- 
dusky; F. P. Faust, Times, New Carlisle; Harrold &: Flynn, Sen- 
tinel, South Charleston; S. M. McMillen, Democrat, T. E. Har- 
wood (fc- Son, Gazette, Sun Publishing Co., Morning Sun, Hos- 
terman Publishing Co., Republican and Times, L. AVeisenbaum, 
Journal Und Adler, Herald Publishing Co., Herald and D. T. 
AVest, Sunday News, Springfield ; T. A. Price, Messenger, Belle- 
ville; T. S. Barr and T. Ed Price, Enterprise, Butler; Cappeller & 
Co., News, O. C. Riddle, Shield, L. S. Kuebler, Courier, George 
W. Cnpp, Farm Journal, Mansfield; T. F. Beelman, Advertiser, 
Plymouth; H. L. Sheets, Republican, and T. G. Hill, Times, 
Shelby; W^olfersberger & Page, Review, Sliiloh; A, E. Little, 
Sentinel, Bradford; B. & W. F. Cantwell, Gazette, Covington; 
T. AV. Morris, Call, D. M. Fleming, Dispatch, Henry Kampf, 
Leader, August Bartel, Die Miami Post, and Gilbert Flowell, 
Buckeye AVorkman, Piqua; C. R. Ivemble, Echo, Pleasant Hill; 
Harry Horton, Herald, Tippecanoe City; Miller & AVilliams, 
Mail, C. F. Goodrich, Trojan, E. S. Williams, Buckeye and Bar- 
ron c^'^ Co., Democrat, Troy; T. M. Sulliger, Record, West Mil- 



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ton; Tunis Print Co., Times, and (\ B. White, Dennisonian, 
Granville; W. A. Ashbrook, Independent, Johnstown; T. H. 
Newton, Advocate, E. M. P. Brister, Sim, T. M. Ickes, Tribune, 
and S. W. Merchant, Ohio Observer, ^Newark; W. S. Xeedham, 
Standard, Pataskala; II. E. Harris, Herald, Utica; A. D. Kowe, 
Times, Ashley; D. S. Eisher, Democrat-Herald, and II. C. and 
R. C. Thomson, Grazette, Delaware; W. H. Baker, "Magnet, 
Ostrander; M. D. Cring, News Item, Sunbury; John II. Racer, 
Moon, Bellbrook; D. C. Woolpert, Herald, Cedarville; W. S. 
Galvin, Comet, Jamestown; (ieorge C. Boston, Local, Osborn; 
J. P. Chew, Gazette, L. II. Whiteman, Herald and Marshall & 
Beveridge, Republican, Xenia; E. D, Osborne, Blade, Spring 
Yalley; D. A. Long, Review, Yellow Springs; H. G. AVhite, Re- 
])ul)lican, and H. L. Goll, Sentinel, Millcrsl)urg; S. Lemon, Her- 
ald, Bo'lle Centre; E. O. and II. K. Hubbard, Examiner, Index 
Printing Co., Index, J. Q. A. Cam])bell, Republican, Bellefon- 
taine; J. C. Sullivan, Buckeye and S. P. Pond, Journal, De 
Graff; O. L. AVilson, News, Huntsville; E. Sullivan, Gazette, 
and R, W. Rubart, Herald, Quiney; Don C. Bailey, Banner, 
West Liberty; Charles Stultz, Enterprise, West Mansfield; J. M. 
Allen, Gazette, (\ V. Harris, Journal, and Fred W. Bush, Mes- 
senger and Herald, Athens; T. Erven VV\dls, Buckeye News, and 
J. A. Tullis, Yalley Register, Nelsonville ; O. E. Shaw, Item, and 
C. C. Slater, News, Mechanicsburg; J. C. Mount, Reporter, 
North Lewisburg; John B. Norman, Era Dispatch, and G. P. 
Shidler, News, St. Paris; Mrs. F. M. Gaumer, Democrat, and H. 
R. Snyder, Citizen and Gazette, ITrbana; C. B. McCoy, Age, J. 
C. Fisher, Democrat, W. H. McCabe, Democrat Standard, Co- 
shocton; L. M. Crom, Cli])pcr, Warsaw; A. C. Bell, Star, Blan- 
chester; Mrs. H. N. ]\IeLitire, Reporter, New Yieima; James 
Gaskins, News Record and J. IT. Barnes, Tribune, Sabina; J. S. 
Hummel, Democrat, C. N. Browning, Republican and W. G. & 
C. R. Fisher, Journal, Wilmington; D. E. Schriner, Yalley 
Record, Laurelville; Lewis Green, Hocking Sentinel, F. M. Mc- 
Kay, Journal Gazette and T. M. Floyd, Ohio Democrat, Logan; 
E, E, Ereundfelter, Enterprise, and T. P. Stiltz, Pickaway Coun- 
ty News, Ashville; W. C. Dai-st, Herald, W. R. Duvall, Union- 
Herald, and A. R. Yan Cleaf, Democrat and Watchman, Circle- 

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ville; T. P. Van Vickie, Leader, Kew Holland; Tom H. Tylton, 
Kews, Williamsport; T. H. King', Enterprise, Caledonia; W. M. 
Tracy, News, Larue; G. L. Podgett, Mirror, W. C. Harding, Star, 
George E. Kelly, Transcript, George Crawford, Independent, 
Will F. Blair, Advertiser, Richard Horn, Deutsche Presse, and 
IST. E. Thatcher, Dollar Democrat, Marion; The Monitor Co., 
Monitor, Prospect; C. P. Rhodes, Journal, and F. A. Hockett, 
Progress, Coalton; T. K. McKlund, Herald, William & Gerken, 
Standard- Journal, Tom Moore, Sun, Jackson; F. A. Hockett, 
Sentinel, and E. C. Hull, Telegram, Wellston; C. R. F. Berry, 
Tri-County N'ews, Brinkhaven; Lloyd M. Bell, Gazette, 
Centerburg; Fred W. Hart, Knox County Herald, Dan- 
ville; E. B. Lewis, Free Press, Fredericktown ; Stu- 
dents of College, Kenyon Collegian, Gambler; ISTews-Printing 
Co., ISTews, Rymble Publishing Co., Republican, Frank Harper, 
Democratic Banner, Mt. Vernon; James M. Rusk, Herald, 
Tannehill Bros., Morgan County Democrat, McConnellsville; 
Chas. E. Hard, Blade, J. L. Patterson, Times, T. E. Valjean, 
Tribune, Carl Huber, German Correspondent, Leslie M. Mann, 
Press, J. L. Patterson, Valley Sentinel, Portsmouth; Agnew 
Record, Parlette Snyder, University Herald, Ada ; E. S. Arnold, 
Standard, Dunkirk; T. A. Waltz, Review, Forrest; W. M. Beck- 
man, New^s-Republican, L. Schluenback, Wochenblatt, Dan 
Flanagan, Democrat, Kenton; Eslie Pennock, Observer, Mt. Vic- 
tory; T. F. Egan, Border IS'ews, Adelphia; Joe Murphy, Ob- 
server, Bainbridge; George H. Tyler, Gazette, John R. Putnam, 
News, George F." Hunter, Advertiser, Chillicothe; Painter & 
Cross, Sun, Frankfort; Jack & Son, Blade, Kingston; B. F. Gay- 
man, Times, Canal Winchester; W. D. Brickell, Dispatch, D. C. 
Jones, Press, S. G. McClure, Ohio State Journal, L. Hirsch, Ex- 
press, J. A. Kuster, Catholic Columbian, F. Rubrecht, Demo- 
cratic Call, D. C. Evans, Franklin County Herald, J. B. K. Con- 
nelly, Sunday News, Columbus; H. H. Turner, Advance, Milo; 
Scott & Keller, Public Opinion, Westerville; James O. Amos, 
News and Shelby County Democrat, C. F. Clements, Shelby 
County Anzeiger, J. L. Dickensheets, Gazette, William Binkley, 
Journal, Sidney; J. H. Shearer, Tribune, A. J. Hare, Union 
County Journal, Marysville; Charles F. Monroe, Ohioan, Milford 



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Center; George W. Wordcn, Gazette, S. W. Van AVinkle, Ke- 
view, Kieliwood; John A. liopley, Telegraph and Journal, Hol- 
bi'ook cVr McXiitt, Forum, A. J. Ilazlett, Crawford County jSTews, 
A. Jirocniel, Courier, Bueyrus; A. G. Sprankle, Advocate, Galen 
Oderkirk, American, Mrs. M. E. Dickerson, Vidette, Crestline; 
H. S. Z. Mathias, Inquirer, J. 'W. Cupp, Leader and Sun Review, 
Galion; J, S. Smith, Herald; JSTew Washington; D. W. Callahan, 
Citizen, Jeffersonville ; William Millikan, Herald, M. B. Grubbs, 
Cyclone and Fayette Republican, J. R. Marshall, Ohio State 
Register, "Washington C. H. ; A. J. Heintzelman, Nickel Plate 
and Vigilant, George J. Holgate, Enterprise, M. L. Bryan, Madi- 
son County Democrat, E. 1^. Gunsaulus, Times, London; Wil- 
liams & Bawnocker, Tribune, Mt. Sterling; W. A. Browne, jr.. 
Advocate, C. W. Horn, Dealer, Plain City; P. C. Fullmer, Home 
Xews, West Jefferson ; H. J. Cameron, Hamden Enterprise, Ham- 
den Junction; F. P. Magee, Democrat Enquirer, Vinton County 
Republican, Vinton County Record, McArthur; J. W. Chapman, 
Journal, William G. Sibley, Tribune, John L. Vance, Bulletin, 
Gallipolis; E. E. Xeal, Morrow^ County Independent, Cardington; 
J. AV. and H. S. Griffith, IVforrow County Sentinel, W. G. Beebe, 
Union Register, Mt. Gilead; E. C. Jordan, Register, Adamsville; 
William Miller, Transcript, Dresden; Melvin Wright, Advertiser, 
Frayersburg; X. A. Geyer, Enterprise, 'New Concord; G. W. 
Gibson, Independent; H. C. Williamson, Review, Roseville; 
Charles A. Reynolds, Courier, Press, D. H. Gaumer, Signal, 
Times-Recorder, II. C. Mueller, Post, Zanesville; E. O. Weist, 
Twin City Xews, Baltimore; Frank Wehr, Banner, Bremen; 
Thomas Wetzler, Eagle, S. A. Griswold, Gazette, Democrat, A. 
R. Eversole, Fairfield County Republican, Lancaster; F. B. 
Crumley, Lithopolitan, Lithopolis; H. O. Hardin, Pickaway 
Xews, Streetsville. 

Many of the editors personally answered the invitation and all 
of them gave of their space to commend the enterprise and bring 
it to the favorable attention of the people. Later, many of them 
graced the centennial by their presence. 

Daniel McAlister and his committee on historic relics early 
found that the task before them w^as a most difficult one. But 
happily at the outset the services of Professor Warren Iv. Moore- 
head were secured as secretary. There was no lack of interest- 



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ing relics, but there was mvicli labor in gathering, arranging and 
j)reserving them from damage and loss. 

Judge Gralloway and his mnsic committee undertook to pro- 
vide a great chorus of school children, but owing to the fact that 
the schools were not in session it was found impossible to get the 
children together for the necessary rehearsals. A large mixed 
chorus of adults was, however, recruited from the several singing 
societies. A centennial hymn having been suggested, Mr. Os- 
man C. Hooper was invited to write the words and Mrs. Ella May 
Smith was invited to write the music. The invitations were ac- 
cepted, the hymn was written and sung with success on the third 
dav of the centennial. 




DEARDOFF RESIDENCE, 605 W. BROAD. — ERECTED ONE HUNDRED 
YEARS AGO. 

The committee on amusements, headed by ex-Mayor George 
J. Karb, provided for a fine series of sports on land and in the 
water, a company of acrobats and entertainers, including Mr. 
Richard Ow^en, being engaged for that purpose. The historical 
tableaux were given into the charge of Colonel S. N. Cook, who, 
in the execution was assisted by the locab tribes of Red Men. 

The committee on grounds and buildings. Dr. A. B. Richard- 
son, chairman, had much to do. A track was constructed for the 
races, a stand for the speakers, a covered platform for the presenta- 



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tioii of the tiil)l(';mx, u Mc.ck house for tlio sham battle with 
Indians, and the old stable used by AVilliam Kenry Harrison 
while he had his army headquarters in Franklinton was removed 
to the gi'ounds. Besides, there was much to be done to the 
groimds to fit them for the use of the great throng. 

Colonel Freeman's committee on decoration was busy for weeks 
planning and executing to delight the eye, and that it was to good 
effect was the burden of universal comment. 

Colonel Patton brought to the work of organizing the parade 
a valuable experience. Invitations were extended to civic, mili- 
tar}' and industrial organizations, Colonel M. H. N^eil being chosen 
marshal of the first group, Colonel J. S. Poland of the second and 
Colonel A. B. Coit of the tliird. 




PART OF Or,D CAMP CHASE BARRACKS. 



The industry that is thus attributed to several of the commit- 
tees may with ('(pial justice be attributed to all. The work con- 
tinued up to the last moment for, as the plans went forward, the 
project developed and it came to be realized that, in undertaking 
to celebrate this centennial of Franklinton, Columbus had as- 
sumed a really gigantic task, and it was the desire and the resolve 
of all to make the centennial a success. At one of the late meet- 



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iiig's of the general committee, Edward Carroll, secretary of the 
Trades and Labor Assembly, suggested that a proclamation be 
issued by the mayor urging that shops and factories be closed on 
the day of the parade in order that the workinamen might par- 
ticipate. The suggestion was approved and in accordance there- 
with, the mayor issued the following : 

Mayor's Office, 
Columbus, O., Sept. 14, 1897. 
To the Citizens of Columbus : 

It is fitting that all the citizens join in the celebration of the 
one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Franklinton. It, 
in fact, marked the beginning of our city. We have prospered 
in the past beyond the fondest hopes of the illustrious pioneers 
who founded our city. 

Out of respect to that Providence which has so wisely guided 
us in the past, in honor of the memory of those distinguished 
city fathers, and to gather new inspiration and courage for the 
future, it is becoming us to lay aside all care and work and devote 
one day to thanksgiving and pleasure. 

Therefore, I, as mayor of the city of Columbus, suggest and 
urge that business be suspended, all business houses and factories 
be closed Wednesday, September 15, 1897, and that all our citi- 
zens join in making that day a memorable one in our city's his- 
tory. Your obedient servant, 

(Seal.) SAMUEL L. BLACK, Mayor. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE FIRST DAY — OFFICIAL PROGRAM. 



5 a. m. — Xational salute. 

9 a. m. — Escorting the speakers and other distinguished guests 
to the centennial grounds. 

10 a. m, — Platform exercises at centennial grounds. Hon. D. 
J. Clahane, chairman. Music. Invocation, Rev, E. D. Morris, 
D. D. Opening address, Hon. D. J. Clahane, chairman execu- 
tive committee. Response for the state of Ohio, Hon. Asa S. 
Bushnell, governor. Response for the city of Columbus, Hon. S. 
L. Black, mayor. Music. Historical address, General John 
Beatty. Music. 

2 p. m. — Aquatic sports, consisting of swimming races, tub 
races, boat races, tugs of war and scientific swimming by Professor 
Richard Owens, Roman hippodrome, trick elephant, games and 
foot races. 

8 p. m. — Historic tableaux, aerial acts, flying and balancing, 
fire works. 



Saturday night, September 11, found the work of preparation 
practically complete. The daily newspapers had for weeks 
teemed with the details of the work and the people, fully advised 
of what had been doing, only awaited the coming guests. West 
Broad street, which was the main street of old Franklinton and 
was now the chief avenue of approach to the grounds where the 
centennial exercises were to be held, was gay with bunting. The 
work of decorating, superintended by D. M. Watson and Joel 
T. Williams, was practically complete. Streamers of red, white 
and blue had been hung across the street, at intervals of about 
200 feet, the entire distance from High street to the State Hos- 
pital for the insane. Each streamer was of two parts, paralleling 



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each other at a distance of about two feet, stars and other designs 
being worked into the intervening space and the whole sur- 
mounted by small flags. There were special decorations at 
Franklin square, from Sandusky to Gift streets, and all the oldest 
buildings were in gala attire. The fire engine houses had been 
artistically decorated by the firemen, who entered heartily into 
the spirit of the celebration, and there was scarcely a building or 
private residence that was not made in some degree to take on a 
livelier appearance. What was true of Broad street was true also 
of many of the side streets, for the interest and enthusiasm were 
shared by all. 

Passing through and under this sea of jubihmt bunting, one 
ascended the hospital hill. There on the right was the hospital 
and a little further along on the left the Highland Avenue school 
building, in which had been collected the historical relics. Still 
further on, to the right was the entrance to the centennial arrounds. 
The pathway north led through fields and down a gentle de- 
clivity, past the spring which had for untold years poured forth 
its cool waters for all wlio would drink, and to the western edge of 
the natural amphitheatre. To the north and south rose sharp 
ridges, cool with virgin forest trees. A level plateau, dotted on 
the sides with umbrageous trees, stretched away toward the east, 
intersected here and tliere with the sinuous windings of a natural 
brook. At the eastern end were the placid waters of tlie lake 
that forms such a cool and pleasant feature of the state grounds, 
while in the center of the plateau, forming a natural, shady am- 
phitheatre of unparalleled beauty, was a single hill. Up on the 
sides of this natural knob seats fell gracefully to the bed of the 
stream belo^^' and to the speakers' stand, a mass of bunting and 
potted plants. To the north seats again rose tomeet the summit of 
the hill above. Over all, the giant trees, some of which had shel- 
tered the red man weary from miles on the chase, stretched their 
leafy branches out until they almost met in a leafy canopy. The 
seats on the south were for the singers — those to the north for 
listeners. 

West of the stand were the newspaper headquarters tents, back 
of which the brook wound in graceful curve, now showing snow 
white against the green of the hillside, and then bending to the 



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south past the William Henry Ilarrisou stable — a relic of by-gone 
days. In front of the cabin stretched the bicycle track, hard 
rolled and in excellent condition. At one end of the track and 
inside was the blo<'khonse, about which a band of bloodthirsty 
and painted Indians were to howl shortly. The theater and stand 
w^ere on the south side of the track. 

To the west still further were the tents of those having privi- 
leges of lemonade, cooling drinks and games of skill. Over the 
north ridge, railroad trains whistled and sped, but only the echo 
reached the peaceful grounds. In the center of the grounds stood 
a giant boulder seamed and cracked by the storms and suns of 
centuries. Brought there by some glacier that perhaps ploughed 




SITE OF speakers' STAND. 

out the site for these very grounds, it had withstood the vicissi- 
tudes of ages. It had seen the virgin forest give back stubbornly 
to the ax of the pioneer and the puny implements of the Indian; 
had seen the waters of the Scioto grow small and those of the 
creek that cuts and circles in a mad maze through the valley 
shrink to a mere runlet. This rock, in whose shade the red hunter 
lingered had stood, while the clearing gave way to the hamlet; 
the hamlet to the village; the village to the city and the city to 
one immense area of brick and stone. 

Such the grounds appeared by day. At night another wonder 
was to be added — the wonder of modem electric lighting. 



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A salute of 45 guns, fired by Comrade Trax, of Newcastle, Pa., 
ushered in tlie 14tli of September, 1897, and the first day of the 
IVanklinton centennial. The cannon used was made from the 
metal of guns captured in the late civil war by the Custer division, 
of which Mr. Trax was a member. The collection of the battle 
relics and the making of the gun are said to have covered a period 
of nineteen years. 

The weather was extremely warm, but interest wasdeepand the 
people early began gathering at the grounds. Chairman E. O. 
Randall's committee on reception was kept busy at the hotels and 
elsewhere, giving welcome to the city's guests, directing them to 
the grounds and aiding them to procure entertainment during 
their stay in the city. About the speakers' stand at 10 o'clock 
a. m., when the exercises began, about 2000 persons were gath- 
ered, a number which was continuously increased as the day ad- 
vanced, till at 3 o'clock the throng was estimated at 6000. Prom- 
inent among those in attendance at the beautiful natural amphi- 
theatre were Governor Asa S. Bushnell, General John Beatty, 
Judge Gilbert H. Stewart, D. J. Clahane, Dr. A. B. Richardson, 
Assistant Director of Law E. C. Irvine (who took the place of 
Mayor Black, who was unable to be present on account of illness). 
Rev. E. R. Morris and « large number of the gray-haired resi- 
dents of Columbus and Franklin county. The platform and 
overhanging trees were gaily decked with flags and bunting, and 
the Eourteenth Regiment band, while the audience gathered, 
played patriotic airs. 

Judge Gilbert H. Stewart called the meeting to order and in- 
troduced Rev. Mr. Morris, a pioneer Presbyterian minister, who 
invoked the Divine blessing on the centennial. His prayer in 
part was as follows : 

"We rejoice in Thee, oh God, our Creator and Father, for Thy 
friendship and portion forever, and we thank Thee for the ever- 
lasting revelation, love and grace, and for the rich ministerings of 
Thy providence. And as we are assembling here in this beautiful 
grove to commemorate the fidelity and patriotism and labors of 
those before us, we humbly pray for guidance upon our service. 
We are thankful, O Lord, for the many things received from Thy 
hands ; we beg of Thee to assist Thy servant, the governor of this 



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eoininonwoaltli, as he shall address you; assist all Thy servants in 
these services, and we shall reverently say together, 'Our Father 
v/ho art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. * * * Amen.' " 

Judge Stewart then made a few introductory remarks, in which 
Jie announced that after many months of preparation, the time 
had arrived for the oi)ening of the Franklinton centennial celeba- 
tion. It is appropriate, he said, that this celebration be opened 
by an address by one who has labored day and night to bring about 
the success of the celebration. 

!Mr. Clahane was then introduced and spoke as follows: 

D. J. C'LAHANE'S SPEECH. 

Ladies, Cientlcmen and Fellow Citizens: 

As chairman of the executive committee, having in charge the 
Columl)us celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 
founding of Franklinton, the duty has been assigned and by me 
most (dieerfully accepted to extend to you, one and all in behalf 
of the citizens of Columbus a heartfelt welcome to this, one of 
the most notable events in the history of this growing city. 

Columbus is noted far and wide for her hospitality, a spirit 
transmitted from Lucas Sullivant and his associates and so aptly 
maintained, for in the present month of September we have 
thrown open the doors of welcome to four national organizations, 
besides numerous other minor organizations, namely : The Army 
of West Virginia, Union Veteran Legion, national conference of 
mayors, the Army of the Cumberland and last but not least, the 
present event, the most important in central Ohio. 

In the life and character of Lucas Sullivant, there is much to 
interest the older members of society and much the younger gen- 
\'ration can study with profit. He possessed the' courage of a 
soldier, the learning of a scholar, the genius of an organizer. 

T would advise some of the younger men, who contemplate a 
trip to the Klondike districts in search of gold, or a balloon voyage 
to locate the north pole, that they sit down and peruse the trials, 
hardships and dangers encountered by Sullivant and his pioneer 
band in tlieir efforts to procure a living while founding the city 
within whose confines we are now standing. 



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The roaming disposition of man is something of a marvel; the 
spirit of DeSoto, Fremont and Marquette was inborn in Snllivant 
and his associates. What oonld have been the motives of men to 
leave the borders of civilization and travel Inindreds of miles by 
canoes, often over mountains, through swamps and almost im- 
penetrable forests to seek new lands, new locations ? The answer 
is to create advance posts of civilization, to form colonies and satis- 
fy a speculative spirit. 

Lucas Sullivant was not only a pioneer, the founder of a village, 
but was also a good business man. The land we stand upon and 
six thousand acres contiguous to it was owned by Lucas Sullivant, 
and hundreds of acres within a stone's throw of where we are 
standing is now in the name of the Sullivant heirs, the direct de- 
scendants of Lucas Sullivant. These lands were known as Vir- 
ginia militarv lands, given to Robert Vance, John Stephenson and 
others, in reward for military services and subsequently acquired 
by Lucas Sullivant. But the founder of Franklinton made a 
mistake when he selected that site upon which to erect a village, 
and possibly a city. And his co-associates, who in 1812 selected 
the east side of the river for the city of Columbus, committed 
equally as grave a blunder. The soil around the old site of 
Franklinton, no doubt, was productive for grain raising, vege- 
tation, etc., but was totally unfit for settlement on account of its 
being subject to overflow from the high waters of the Scioto and 
Olentangy rivers; the confluence of these streams being within a 
few hundred yards of the settlement. 

This error they discovered a year later; for in 1Y98, water sub- 
merged the lowlands, forcing the settlers to retire to a knoll or 
island along the territory now traversed by Sandusky street. 
Lucas Sullivant, during this period of high water was no doubt 
like the Irishman trying to ride a fractious, bucking mule, who, 
when told by a bystander ''to jump oif," said "How in the divil 
can I jump off when T can't stay on." No doubt Mr. Sullivant 
had as nmch trouble to stay on as he would have had to get off. 

A mistake was made in laying off the lots in Franklinton; the 
streets were wide enough, but the lots were laid off in blocks four 
to the square; each lot being 99 feet front by 115 feet running 
back and abutting a lot of the same dimensions; no alleys were 



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jirovidcd tor, which has oecasioiu'd n(» inconsiderable difficulty 
up to the i)resent day. 

The difficulties which Air. SuUivant and his followers had Irom 
inundation and which retarded the growth of the west side for 
nearly a century, was overcome in ISSil by the city expending 
$50,0()() in constructing massive levees along the banks of the 
Scioto, an improvement which was quickly followed by the 
phenomenal growth of this section of the city. 

Lucas Sullivant, if living today, would he an ujj-to-date citizen; 
he was a versatile man, with wide accomplislnnents. lie was a 
success as a farmer, surveyor, office-holder, nu^cdumic, moralist 




STABLE USED BY GEN. HARRISON IN THE WAR OF 1812. 

and bank president. He was an honest man, living in an honest 
age. As a contractor he l)uilt the first county jail of Franklin 
county, for $80; there was no rake-oif in that job. The violators 
of law were evidently tame offenders; no riots, no militia, no 
lynching bees. 

It is fitting that this event should be known as the Columbus 
celebration of the founding of Franklint(Ui. It is- fitting that 
all citizens of Columbus should unite in placing this century stone 



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on the highway of our city's history, our city's progress. The 
chiklren of to-day see around them only magnificent buildings, 
beautiful streets, evidences of civilization, colossal wealth, but 
how little the imprint on their tender minds of trials, labors, vicis- 
situdes of their fore-parents to bring about the fruits of these great 
things. 

Lyne Starling, John Kerr, Alex. McLaughlin, James Johnson, 
the co-associates of Lucas Sullivant, are entitled to much credit 
for their zeal and sacrifices when in 1812 they formed Columbus 
proper and secured the permanent location of the great capital 
of Ohio. 

. Think of the enterprise of these four men, residents of the old 
town of Tranklinton, pledging 20 acres of ground, 10 for the 
capitol square, 10 for the penitentiary and $50,000 as a bonus 
to locate the capital city of Ohio, and thus founding the city of 
Columbus. True, land was cheap, but think of raising $50,000 
in those days of trade and barter ! Lucas Sullivant Avas an active 
man those times, organizing and becoming president in February, 
1816, of the Bank of Franklin, the first banking institution of Co- 
lumbus. Is it a wonder that the people of Columbus vie with 
each other to do justice to the memory of the founder of Frank- 
linton ! Men who did so much to lift the toddling infant Colum- 
bus to her feet. But experience has taught us many things, and 
one of these is, that to properly lay out a city is a science, locations 
for a village may be totally unfit for a city. Hundreds of cities 
in the United Spates are paying dearly for the error of their found- 
ers. Rivers, canals, toll roads, the old highways of travel, being 
abandoned for the more modern highways, namely steam and 
electric roads, will in itself suggest formation of cities upon new 
lines; but there are two well-known principles that the founders 
of cities and villages should ahvays keep in mind and that is, first, 
look out for sanitation and second, avoid natural obstructions so 
as to leave room for growth. Lucas Sullivant made a mistake 
in locating the village of Franklinton on account of lowlands; his 
associates made a mistake in selecting the high banks east of the 
Scioto, first, for sanitarv causes, second, for endless expenses en- 
tailed and third, for the natural obstruction three miles east, 
Alum creek. Later on factories were located along the banks 



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of tlie Scioto, sewers were emptied into tlie stream every few 
squares apart from Nortli Columbus to the south corporation line. 
Dams were constructed in the Scioto, which obstructed the flow 
in dry seasons, with what results^ The smoke, steam and dirt 
from factories are wafted over the city by western winds; the 
fogs and miasmas from the lowlands west follow. The stench 
from sewers from a congested, polluted stream does likewise. At 
the present time the city proper gets the benefit of factory smoke 
and the vapors of a polluted river, and the south side the aroma 
from sewage and soap factories and decayed vegetation. The 
growth of the east side will be soon hampered by Alum creek, 
possibly in time another polluted stream. The east and west 
sides of Alum creek, like the east and west sides of the Scioto, 
might be connected by bridges for a half million dollars if the 
taxpayers can stand it. 

Where would I locate the city of Columbus? Lyne Starling 
and his associates, instead of going east of the river for a city's loca- 
tion, should have gone west to the high ground known as Sulli- 
vant's hill, starting the city on the bluff we are standing on, and by 
building north and west would have secured an ideal spot. By 
looking at a map of Franklin county, it will be seen that the Scioto 
river, a short distance from, and nearly on a line with these cen- 
tennial grounds, turns abruptly to the north, veers slightly to the 
west and maintains that course for miles. The first natural ob- 
struction west is the Big Darby creek, a stream the size of Alum 
creek, near the town of West Jefferson, fourteen miles away. 
A city fourteen miles wide and twenty miles long could have 
been constructed on this high plain. Factories could have been 
located along the river frontage and bottoms where West Colum- 
bus proper stands, all east of the city. Sewage could be emptied 
into the river by the old quarries or any other place south of that 
point, and the flow of the stream would be away from the city. 
The western and southwestern winds would carry the smoke and 
stench over the corn and wheat fields where the state house and 
Columbus of today stands. A sewage farm could be selected on 
the lowlands south and east of my city; for a water supply we 
would be right in it, A pumping station placed north of Dublin 
would rive us good, clear water coming down through the pipes by 



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gmvitation, and not as now forced through miles of pipes, in some 
instances 100 feet high. The expenses of the proposed conduit 
of 6000 feet woukl thus be obviated. Now look at the elevation. 
At the end of West Broad street jDavement, where it intersects 
Hague avenue, is 33 feet higher than is the street grade at the 
corner of High and Broad streets, 53 feet higher than at the corn- 
er of High and (/'hestnut, 37 feet above High and Fifth avenue, 
22 feet above High and Mound, 43 feet above High and Fifteenth 
avenue, about the same elevation as at High and Knickerbocker 
avenue (Xorth Columbus) and at Broad and Wilson avenues, 
both points being summits. Broad street from Hague avenue west 
for six miles, will show an increased elevation of fully 50 feet. 
The historian of the future, in commenting on the great growth of 
Columbus in the northwest, will pay a tribute to man's perspicuity 
and nature's art. 

Now the people of Columbus who were born here, those identi- 
fied with her growing interests, those who expect to make this the 
home of their final rest, can have only the tenderest feelings of 
love and respect for the men and women, the pioneers of earlier 
life who did so much to give to Columbus her advantage of central 
jiower, her robust character and made her the citadel of commerce, 
learning, law and art. These were a hardy, generous and im- 
pulsive people, living in a wild and tunuiltuous period; they 
had more use for courage than for poetry, for perseverance than 
for theories, for patriotism than for selfishness. They taught us 
to remember well the simple fact that 

Honor and shame from no conditions rise ; 
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 

GOVERNOE BUSHNELL'S SPEECH. 

After Mr. Clahane had finished his address he assumed the 
duties of chairman of the day and introduced Governor Bushnell 
as the next speaker. The governor was received with liberal ap- 
plause. He spoke as follows : 
Mr. Chairman, Friends and Fellow-Citizens of Ohio: 

The duty of responding on behalf of the State of Ohio is ever 
a pleasant one to me, but upon such an occasion as this it is 
doublv so. This celebration is one of many which are intended 



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to do honor to the past, the present and the future of one of the 
centers of our state civilization. These exercises are to be in 
tril)nto to those who struggled with primeval conditions and 
achieved success. They are also intended as a recognition of the 
good endeavor of those who followed the pioneers and finally 
they are designed to teach the lessons offered by our present day 
environment. Under such circumstances it would seem that it 
should be a comparatively easy task to give fitting expression of 
praise on behalf of the state; but it is not so. The mind when 
dwelling upon the magnificent process of our evolution becomes 
confused with the many incidents that make up the glorious story. 
Hardly a page of early Ohio history is unromantic. Tliere are 




i^vne; stari^ing. 



but very few of the man}- sections which can j^roperly claim a 
century of history that do not present stirring facts and striking 
episodes worthy of mention by one who is endeavoring to give an 
epitome of it all. Each sturdy Ohio settlement of the wilderness 
had its own cause for pride and each has had a record which can 
well be termed that of honor. 

The new Pilgrims who landed at the mouth of the Muskingum 
and found another rock of hope in the wilderness, constituted a 
society which left a notable impression upon Ohio civilization. 

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Those who came from Coiinectieiit and opened the now splendid 
section known as the Western Reserve, formed another nucleus 
of a wonderful development and of a great success. The Vir- 
ginians who, in first following the westward star settled some of 
tlie fertile valleys and alhivial stretches of Kentucky and who 
finally came into that part of Ohio which lies along the western 
streams of our southern watershed, established no less a shining 
mark to stand as a monument to their good endeavor and purpose. 
It was from these three important advents to the Ohio wilder- 
ness that the broad foundation stones of present civilization rose. 
Think for a moment what a standard of quality this infusion of 
Anglo-Saxon blood meant to a new region like that which was to 
become Ohio. From the very establishment was given the 
strong, uncomj)romising, self-helpful and God-fearing character 
which came from Puritan and true Anglo-Saxon ancestry. From 
the region which knew the early settlements along the James 
river was furnished a race of brave, hardy and chivalrous men and 
women — those who had wrestled with adversity and hard circum- 
stances as strenuously as had their New England brethren and 
who were equally as determined to achieve success in a new land. 
In no place within the confines of Ohio was there a more remark- 
able welding of these two elements of pioneer citizenship than in 
this Franklin county. The children of that which was then the 
east and the south met here upon fertile ground to attempt civiliza- 
tion. How well they succeeded the present day conditions show. 
In a stretch of a hundred years no settlement, town or city of this 
great state of ours has more of which to be proud than Columbus. 
The record of her growth from the small beginning on the west 
side to her present proud position in the galaxy of Ohio cities has 
been remarkable in every respect. As a community of frontiers- 
men and their families she produced those who took a prominent 
place in the affairs of the state and of the nation. As the capital 
of a commonwealth almost second to none in our union of states 
she has given men and women who can well be ranked with some 
of our most illustrious sons and daughters. Patriotic at all times, 
progressive, loyal ever, cultivated, strong and sturdy, peaceful, 
the beginning and the present of Columbus have been all that 
could be asked. 



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But there are others whose pleasant duty it is to day to speak 
ill more particular detail and in more glowing terms of the history 
of the iiiiinic'ipality which is celebrating its centennial anniversary 
. at this time. 1 will not encroach upon their prerogatives, there- 
fore, but before leaving the subject for a brief reference to the 
more general one of the state, let me say that I as a resident of 
Springfield, your well-wishing and loyal neighboring city, feel 
a peculiar interest in the celebration. It was one of the early 
settlers of Fraiiklinton who was mainly responsible for the begin- 
ning of Springtield. GritHth Foos, whose family is a well known 
one throughout the state, came to Ohio from Kentucky and his 
route was 1a' the Scioto valley. He tarried awhile in Frank- 
linfon and then determined to explore the forest areas to the west- 
ward ill search of a new kx^ation. He reached the present site of 
S[)ringtield in March, 1801, and there, with another earlier settler, 
James Demint, also a Kentuckian, laid out a town which has also 
had a wonderful development and which has ever been a just cause 
for Ohio pride. I mention this fact to show that some of us whose 
private residences are not in this goodly city of Colundnis have 
reason to thank you. Had it not been for Franklinton and the 
invitation it gave to Grifhth Foos to become a settler if only tem- 
porarily, Springfield would i)robably not have been begun in so 
desirable a location and perhaps my home city would not have had 
as good a beginning. 

My friends, if there is good cause why Ohio should rejoice in 
her fine cities and in the citizenship thereof, there is also every 
reason why all who live in cities and towns, in villages or in purely 
agricultural communities, should join in one grand chorus in laud- 
ing and praising the state as a whole. It was carved out of a 
widerness and the pioneers found that it was rich in all the ele- 
ments that contribute to man's well being and success in life. 
There were broad stretches of land adapted for agriculture; there 
were rivers which drained the land and which afforded quick and 
easy means of travel. There was timber of a most excellent kind; 
th(^re were hills which contained minerals and which were rich 
in bitiuiiinous coal. ITature seemingly lavished gifts upon this 
fertile tract we now call our own. How we have profited by the 
bounty of a gracious Providence you all know in a general way, 



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but there are few who fully appreciate the magnitude of the 
harvest of material wealth we now gather each year. In every 
city of Ohio there are busy factories which are turning out pro- 
ducts for the use of our citizens or for the world. The 10,000 
square miles of coal land yield 10,000,000 tons annually; the iron 
and steel industries have made Ohio famous in that line, and our 
quarries have produced and are producing stone which is the peer 
of any. But agriculture has been the mainstay of Ohio. In the 
109 years of the history of that which is now Ohio, husbandry has 
been the most important occupation and grandly has it progressed. 
From the maize field of the pioneers and from their small garden 
patches which produced at first only a return sufiicient for the' 
needs of the settlers, there has come an annual harvest stupendous 
in its proportions. The 10,000,000 acres of land of the present 
day produce 100,000,000 bushels of corn, 37,000,000 bushels of 
wheat; a like amount of oats; 12,000,000 bushels of potatoes and 
a wonderful crop of other products now necessary and marketable. 
Our orchards cover 50,000 acres, and in some years have produced 
31,000,000 bushels of apples, 1,500,000 bushels of peaches and 
270,000 bushels of pears. All fruits have been produced in 
abundance. Our live stock has been valued at $112,000,000 
and the flocks of sheep have yielded 20,000,000 pounds of strong 
fibered wool. The Ohio farmer has been enterprising and ad- 
vanced in his ideas. He has prospered and under a beneficent 
school system all his children as well as those of his brothers of 
the cities have been given the chance of a good education. No 
wonder Ohio is great and no wonder her people can praise her! 

The realization of such hopes of the j)ioneers and of those who 
succeeded them should be a cause for congratulation from all. 
Such an event as this today is in honor of the general results as 
well as of those who labored and won this field. For Ohio I say 
to the people of this central county and of this capital city, "Well 
done;" and I know that all of you are willing to raise your voices 
in extolling the work of your fellow-men. May Columbus and 
her people, the posterity of those who came late and those who 
came early, achieve still greater success in the century to come ! 
May all be as proud of the fair name of our state during the second 
century as we are today ! 



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MR. IRVINE SPEAKS FOR THE MAYOR. 

At the close of Governor BuslmeH's address Ohairman Cla- 
liane announced that, owing to sudden illness, Mayor Black could 
not bo present to deliver the address of welcome in behalf of the 
city, adding that in the absence of the mayor Assistant Director of 
Law E. C Irvine would do the honors for the city. 

Mr. Irvine spoke briefly, but to the point. He said he was 
sorry that the mayor could not be present to deliver the address, 
as the eifort would have been much abler than he was capable of, 
especially on such short notice as he had received. He said it was 
fitting- that Columbus should celebrate the centennial anniversary 
of Franklinton. He referred to the sturdy pioneers who had 
blazed a path through the wilderness and hewed from the forests 
a new civilization for which they deserve the homage now paid 
them by those participating in the celebration commemorative of 
their accomplishments. 




MT. CAHMEL HOSPITAL, CONDUCTED BY THE SISTERS OF HOLY CROSS. 

The speaker referred to the hardships that ])eset the early 
settlers who were surrounded by savage red men and in constant 
fear of the deadly tomahawdv and scalping knife. In conclusion 
he, in behalf of Mayor Black, extended a hearty welcome to all 
to Columbus. 



GENERAL JOHN BEATTY'S ADDRESS. 

General John Beatty was then introduced and delivered the 
following historical address : 

A few rods from where we are assembled today the waters of 
the Olentangv unite with those of the Scioto, and together flow 



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down to the Ohio, thence to the Mississippi, and so onward to a 
gulf of the Atlantic ocean. Southwardly from the place where 
the two streams meet, there was, at the time to which we propose 
to refer, a broad, handsome stretch of valley land, where good 
crops of corn would follow even rude cultivation, where the wild 
grape, plum and j^aw-paw could be gathered in their season, and 
whence it was an easy matter to make forays to the higher lands 
in quest of such beasts and birds as prefer not to live in close prox- 
imity to man, whether he be tame or wild. This suggests, in 
brief, the field about us as our fathers saw it, but not the incidents, 
marvelous and otherwise, connected with it. 

At a time when our ancestors were living in thatched huts on 
the Rhine, the Thames, the Shannon, or the Tweed, and when 
even London was an inconsiderable collection of rude houses, a 
people far advanced in certain lines of civilization established a 
town near the junction of the Scioto and Olentangy, and built 
temples and places of sepulture, and worshiped God in a fashion 
somewhat different from our own, but not greatly dissimilar to 
that of the old Britons who met for devotional services at Stone- 
henge. 

The Scioto was then a great thoroughfare ; its banks dotted with 
homes and populous villages. That was a thousand — may be 
three thousand — years ago, and yet the beautiful temple mounds, 
and mounds of sepulture, which this prehistoric people left be- 
hind them — some almost within an arrow's flight from where we 
stand — have for centuries defied the ravages of time, and now 
bid fair to continue to exist when the decaying edifices of ancient 
GTreece and Rome shall have finally moldered into dust and for- 
ever disappeared. 

When and why this people left the Scioto valley, and to what 
place they journeyed, will always remain matters of conjecture, 
but the splendid cities and other evidences of high civilization 
which the Spaniards found in Mexico and Peru suggest, at least, 
that they moved southward in search of a more genial climate 
and perhaps more fertile lands. 

Then the red Indian came — a race of stalwart men, who 
spurned fixed habitations, delighted in the freedom and solemn 
grandeur of great forests, and loved the world as it had come 



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frc'slily from the hand of the Creator. But even this nomadic 
peoj)k» had their favorite places of resort, and their frail abodes 
were standing near the junction of the Scioto and Olentangy when 
the Pilgrim fathers lande<l at Plymouth Rock, and the first Eng- 
lish colony settled on the James. It can hardly be a stretch of the 
jirohabilities to say that a knowledge of these important events at 
the time of their occurrc^nce, traveled slowly from the seacoast 
to the interior, and in a somewhat distorted and exaggerated form 
finally reached those who lived then where we live now. And we 
may safely assume, also, that the strange news was received by 
some who heard it, with scornful incredulity, while others pon- 
dered over it in awe as if it might betoken a visitation of the gods 
in winged shi})s from the happy hunting grounds, to which all 
good Indians hoped in due time to be translated. 

Still many years i)assed by, and although the old rumors of the 
coming of the white man with his smoking, thnndering, deadly 
gun, and blade of flashing steel, crystallized at last into absolute 
certainty, it was yet a far cry, and the savage ear in this remote 
section grew accustomed to it, and ceased to give it marked at- 
tention. At last, however, the day arrived when the skirmish 
line of advancing civilization, crossing the Allegheuies, entered 
the valleys of the Ohio and its tributaries and setting up its stand- 
ards, built stockades and domiciles, and made known its purpose 
to occupy the land. Then there followed years of desultory war- 
fare, in which wives and children were not spared ; and this con- 
dition of unrest and blood and midnight burnings continued 
until finally the more intelligent of the native race were made to 
comi)rehend that it was a heedless and cruel waste of life to pro- 
long the contest against constantly increasing numbers and so, 
in patches, rather than in whole, friendly relations were estab- 
lished l)etween the new comers and the old inhabitants. 

It was then — just one hundred years ago — that Lucas Sulli- 
vant — an Irishman in name and paternal ancestry, a Virginian 
by birth, a Kentuckian by residence, a civil engineer by profes- 
sion and a gentleman by instinct and education, founded the town 
the centennial anniversary of whos(^ birthyear we have gathered 

here this dav to celebrate. 
•s 

The founding of a town may be an event creditable to the 



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f oimder and it may not. Paper towns, and towns wliicli perished 
in infancy, or straggled on to a dilapidated old age, may be heard 
of or seen in almost every section of our country. It is the 
prophetic discrimination of the founder which alone renders the 
act of founding a matter worthy of consideration. In other 
words, the wisdom of the man as demonstrated by the merit and 
success of the enterprise he originates, is the true measure of the 
credit to which he is entitled. It was Lucas Sullivant's desire, 
doubtless, to build the town on his own land, but he could have 
done this by putting it miles further west or south, for he was the 
possessor of many acres. The motive which prompted him, 
however, in the selection of a site was doubtless the same which 
thousands of years before had been decisive with the prehistoric 
people to whom reference has been made, and this may be said also 
of the founders of Marietta, Cincinnati, Chillicothe, I^Tewark and 
most of the towns of central and southern Ohio. It has been 
suggested that it was Mr. Sullivant's intention to build his town 
as nearly as possible in the center of the state, with the hope that 
it might ultimatelv become a nucleus for the state's capital ; but 
it is hardly probable a consideration of this kind moved him, for 
state lines at that time had not been defined. The land he owned 
was simply a part of the northwest territorv, and this included 
what subsequently became Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and 
Wisconsin. 

But let Mr. Sullivant's incentive to action have been what it 
may, the fact lemains that he planted his prospective city at the 
confluence of the Scioto and the Olentangy, and in honor of an 
illustrious American then but recently deceased, named it Frank- 
linton. 

At that time the war of the revolution had been ended but 14 
years. The seat of the national government was at Philadelphia. 
John Adams had just succeeded "Washington as president. Ar- 
thur St. Olair was governor of the northwest territory. The 
Scioto river was the boundary line between Washington county 
on the east, with its seat of justice at Marietta, and Hamilton 
county on the west, with its seat of justice at Cincinnati. There 
were Indian trails through the great forest, but no roads. Eben- 
ezer Zane, however, was engaged in the work of opening a road 



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from Wheeling, Va., to Maysville, Ky., biit."Zane's trace," as 
it was called, was forty miles south of Frankliiitoii, and the first 
settler in what is now Fairfield county, C'aptain Joseph Hunter, 
di<l not travel over it until 17J>8. Putnam and Tupper had es- 
tablished a colony at the mouth of the Muskingum. There was 
a remnant of a deceived and despondent colony of French at 
Gallipolis. Inconsiderable settlements had been made between 
the Miamis on wltat was known as the Symmes purchase. There 
where settlements opposite wheeling in what is now Belmont 
county, and the year before the time of which I speak the avant 
couriers of a Connecticut colonv lia<l built cabins at the mouth 




LAKE ON CENTENNIAL GROUNDS. 

of the Cuyahoga river. Chillicothe was a town of forty log 
cabins, but in what are now known as the counties of Delaware, 
Licking, Union, Madison and Fayette, there was not, so far as I 
can ascertain, a single white man. The environment of Mr, 
Sullivant's proposed town, therefore, was not such as to afford 
him great encouragement, and it required an exceedingly lively 
imagination to leap forward to the time when it should become 
a part of a populous and important city. 

Providence, however, seems to delight in taking some folks by 
the hand and leading them blindfolded to success. We see this 
truth made manifest in business, in war, and in politics, and I 



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think Mr. Sullivant was one of the favored few who biiilded better 
than they knew. Bnt let this be as it ma j, here he built his home, 
and a few years later brought to it a young wife, who by blood 
and marriage was allied to the more prominent families of Vir- 
ginia and Kentucky and whose paternal ancestor had been a 
baronet in England, and lord mayor of London. 

I know too much of the narrow economies and deprivations of 
pioneer life to wholly excuse Lucas Sullivant for thus taking a 
young woman from a comfortable home, the companionship of a 
wide circle of relatives, and the delightful adjuncts of a long es- 
tablished and well ordered community, and bringing her to such 
a place as Franklinton was then, and yet our hearts swell with ad- 
miration as we reflect that only a devoted and brave wife would 
accompany her husband to a solitude where in the shadow of the 
forest when the night shut down, the world would have seemed 
blotted out but for the complaining voices of wild beasts, and the 
ever present fear that the thick darkness concealed savage foes 
who might at any moment resort to violence. But it may be said 
some were called upon to make such sacrifices, and this is time. 
Grateful thanks, therefore, not to Sarah Starling alone, but to 
other heroic wives as well, who did not hesitate to follow the 
standards of civilization to new fields, and by their grace and 
beauty adorn and brighten the rude homes of the wilderness. 

Lucas Sullivant was in person of medium height, with a good 
head, aquiline nose, blue-gray eyes, and a chin and mouth popu- 
larly supposed to be indicative of firmness and decision. When 
he made the preliminary survey of the site for Franklinton, he 
was just thirty-two years old, and hence in the prime and vigor of 
early manhood. His sons were all taller and heavier than him- 
self, and in these particulars resembled the Lynes and Starlings. 
His grandchildren were in face at least, if not in height and 
weight, unlike him also. But strange to say — and yet it should 
be said in confirmation of a theory with respect to the transmission 
of ancestral traits — one of his great grandsons is in stature and 
facial features his exact counterpart. Mr. Sullivant's sons were 
all strong men, both in body and mind. Lideed, it can be no 
exaggeration to afiirm that the eldest of the three, William 
Starling Sullivant, is entitled to high rank among the greater 



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Aincriciiiis of tlu' ])ast ccnturv. Ho was graduated at Yale in 
182'*}. riic council of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences ])ronounce(l him "the most accomplished bryolog'ist 
which this country had ever produced," and the distinguished 
botanist, Dr. Asa (iray, said: *'His works have laid such a broad 
and complete foundation for the study of bryology in this coun- 
try, and are of such recognized importance everywhere, that 
they must always be of (dassic authority." In brief, Mr. Wil- 
liam S. Sullivant's contributions to the science of botany are so 
valuable that they can be found today in all the great libraries 
of the world. He was born here, and as the dead live, he is still 
Fi-ankl in ton's most accomplished son. 

The great beauty and unsurpassed natural advantages which 
sanguine men invariably discover in their own bread acres, 
prom])ted Mr. Lucas Sullivant to lay out a site for his prospective 
town (m an exceedingly liV)eral scale. Indeed, I think when he 
had com})leted his surveys and drawn his maps the land embraced 
within its boundaries would have accommodated the village pop- 
ulation of the entire northwest territory. But the next spring's 
Hoods suggested to him that until dikes were built it would be 
w(dl to modify his plans, and restrict the purchasers, he so con- 
(h'utly expected, to the higher grounds. This he did and then 
with a dis])lav of generosity which must have elicited much quiet 
but good natured laughter from the few sensible pioneers who 
had come to look about them for a place to settle down, he 
offered lots on Gift street as a gratuity to those who would ac- 
cept them as a place of residence. At that time good land could 
be bought at from one dollar to two dollars an acre, and conse- 
quently Mr. Sullivant's lots on Gift street were not worth to ex- 
ceed fifty cents apiece, and if recording fees were as high in that 
day as they are in this, the man who should avail himself of Mr. 
Sullivant's beneficence would at the end of the transaction be out 
of ]iocket a full dollar. For this and other obvious reasons 
neither the lots on Gift, nor any other street in Franklinton, 
found eager takers. Even John Brickell, a lad of sixteen, who 
had spent four years in captivity with the Indians, and who was 
among the first to reach the town, took abundant time to consider 
Mr. Sullivant's proposition, and then exhibited the excellent 



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sense with wliicli nature had endowed liini, l)y buying a tract of 
elevated ground near where the penitentiary now stands. 

In 1802 Ohio became a state of the federal union, with its 
temporary capital at Chillieothe, and in the year following Ed- 
ward Tiffin was elected governor. Franklin county was organ- 
ized in 1803, enclosing a broader area than it does at present, 
and Franklinton was made its seat of justice. In 1801 a log jail 
was built in the new county seat, and in 1807 a court house 
erected. Still Franklinton did not prosper and become popu- 
lous. It should be said, however, that no western towns save 
those situated on the lakes and great rivers, increased in popula- 
tion rapidly from 1800 to 1850. In that period railroads had 
not made transit from the seaboard to the interior cheap and easy, 
and hence only the more stalwart and energetic ventured to en- 
counter the discomforts and perils incident to a long journey 
through the wilderness. The first comers were as a rule the best. 
I doubt if there can now be found among the 175,000 residents 
of Franklin county a single man superior in education and in- 
tellectual strength to many of the settlers of that early day. 
Bishop Philander Chase, Colonel James Tvilbourne and Salmon 
P. Chase were then at Worthington. Judge Gustavus Swan, 
Lync Starling, Dr. Lincoln Goodale, the Reverend Dr. James 
Iloge, General Joseph Foos, the Sullivants and the McDowells 
were in Franklinton or in its vicinity. Where shall we find 
better blood, brighter intellects, or braver hearts than they pos- 
sessed? Certainly not here, and I think not elsewhere in Ohio. 
J udge Gustavus Swan has left us a graphic picture of the country 
at that early period, and one suggestive of the deprivations to 
which its people were subjected. 

"When I opened my office in Franklinton in 1811," he says, 
"there was neither church nor school house, nor pleasure carriage 
in the county; nor was there a bridge over any stream within the 
compass of a hundred miles. The roads at all seasons were 
nearly impassable; there was not in the county a chair for every 
two inhabitants, nor a knife and fork for every four." 

What a valuable lesson this should suggest! We now com- 
plain about hard times; what sort of times were those when 
merchandise was brought up the Scioto from the Ohio in barges 



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and canoos — wlien men burned holes in stnmps where women 
and children might pound corn for the midday dinner — when 
the most estimable of wives in writing back to her old home said, 
"We shall occupy one room this winter as my husband must 
make use of the other for a shop." Hard times! The truth is 
the peo])le of this generation in Ohio have been indulged and 
pampered until, like babies, they whimper when the nursing 
bottle happens for a moment to be withdrawn. Where now is 
that knightly s})irit of the fathers which prompted them to seek 
new fields of enterprise, and that admirable stoicism which would 




FAMOUS BOULDER ON CENTENNIAL GROUNDS— ol FKET IN 
CIRCUMFERENCE AT BASE. 

brook no murmurs of complaint ? It may be said all good fields 
are now occupied, but the saying would be false, for lands as 
fertile as those around us are more accessible today than the 
Scioto valley was to the fathers one hundred years ago, and they 
are as low in price as Ohio lands were then, and as easily 
made valuable by settlement and cultivation. 

In 1805 Lyne Starling, a Virginian by birth, just 21 years old 
and six feet seven inches in heicrht, came to Franklinton, and a 
few years later, forming a partnership with his brother-in-law, 



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Mr. Liieas Siillivant, opened a general store. Mr. Starling's 
head was, 1 think, fnllj as long as his body, for in 1809 he 
bought land on the east bank of the Scioto, and in 1810 enter- 
tained sirong expectations of getting the state capital located 
either on it or in its immediate vicinity. 'Franklin ton, Worth- 
ington and Dnblin were each strnggling for the honor of be- 
coming the seat of the state government, with the chances de- 
cidedly against the former, becanse of the low ground upon 
which it was situated. At one time Dublin seemed to be the 
favored place and at another time Worthington, but the pro- 
prietors of the elevated land on the east bank of the Scioto oppo- 
site Franklinton were by no means lacking in either vigilance, 
enterprise or tact, and uniting in a proposition to the state they 
succeeded in securing its acceptance, and the selection of their 
land as the site of the prospective city. Lyne Starling, John 
Kerr, Alexander McLaughlin and James Johnston were the 
prime actors and beneficiaries in the successful undertaking; but 
it is more than probable that Worthington would have w^on the 
prize if Mr. Lucas Sullivant, General Joseph Foos, and other 
citizens of Franklinton, who then thought they had but little if 
any pecuniary interest in the matter, had not finally come 
actively and earnestly to the assistance of the Starling syndicate. 
The future seat of the state government was by law established 
at Columbus in 1812, but the act was passed and the city named 
when the site on which it was to be built was simply a densely 
wooded tract without even a good wagon road through it, and 
with hardly a clearing or a cabin on it. It was not until 1816 that 
public buildings were completed, and made ready for the recep- 
tion of the state officials. But between the time when the legis- 
lative act was passed fixing the site of the capital, and the date of 
its occupancy, Franklinton for a year or more reached a higher 
degree of prosperity than it had ever previously attained. The 
war of 1812 was in progress and Hull's surrender at Detroit left 
the isolated settlements open to the assaults of not only the 
British, but also their savage, merciless allies. The dispersed 
end exposed white families of Ohio, therefore, were for a time in 
abject terror. Settlers from Delaware, Worthington, Dublin and 
the surrounding country hurried to Franklinton as to a place of 



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refuge and safety; defensive preparations in the way of ditches 
and stockades were begun in the vicinity of the court house, but 
the panic subsiding, they were never completed. Then it was 
that Franklinton became a place of gathering for troops, and a 
base of supplies for the western army, and in it the roll of the 
drum and shrill notes of the tife became unremitting. Troops 
from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Tennessee — foot, 
horse and dragoon — came marching into the village under flying 
colors, were rested and supplied, and then went marching on to 
the ^laumee. Ohio recruits assembled here, were organized into 
companies, hastily taught a few simple military movements, and 
sent forward to the scene of hostilities. Seven hundred men 
under the gallant Colonel Campbell left the town on horseback, 
fought a winning battle with Indians at Munceytown, and ob- 
tained as their reward a congratulatory order issued by Gleneral 
William Henry Harrison from his headquarters at Franklinton. 
Parades and reviews took place on the public square in the pres- 
ence of the commanding general and his excellency, Governor 
Return Jonathan Meigs. General Lewis Cass visited the town, 
and General Perkins and General Beall and the chivalrous Gov- 
ernor Shelby, of Kentucky. The gallant General Leftwich 
marched into it at the head of a brigade of brave Virginians, and 
then in good time marched out again. Colonel Anderson came 
also, leading a regiment of Tenneseeans, accompanied by General 
Harrison, then on his return from Cincinnati. General Joseph 
Foos and Captain Vance, both Franklinton men and good officers, 
were at the head of Franklin county soldiers, and were quick 
either to lead or follow, and eager for battle. It was within a few 
rods of where we stand that General Harrison held his conference 
with the Delawares, Wyandots and Senecas — when mothers with 
babes in their arms, looking upon the scene — trembled with 
anxiety and suspense. Then a great shout of gladness went up 
from strong men, and thankful prayers from women, when Tarhe, 
the great Wyandot, announced that the tribes represented in the 
council would stand as a barrier between hostile Indians and the 
wives and children of the settlers, while husbands and fathers 
were absent on the border fighting the British and their allies. 
It was here, alas ! that a poor wretch — a despondent and home- 



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sick man, may be, or one wear}' of the dull routine of military life, 
and desperate, was shot to death for the crime of desertion, and 
it was here also that another — a youn^ boy, perhaps — convicted 
of the same offense and sentenced to die, was led to his coffin, 
blindfolded, and then, thank heaven! reprieved. Of course, in 
war discii^line must be maintained, and examples must be set, and 
army regulations enforced, and military law upheld, and the 
orders of commanding officers obeyed; but God help the poor 
boy whose heartstrings draw him home. He may be as brave as 
Julius Caesar, and yet in a moment of despondency, or under 
the goadings of a personal grievance, risk all for a chance of 
reaching sympathetic friends, and sitting by the family fireside 
again. 

It was in the fields about us that Captain Cushing's battery 
boomed now and then upon the receipt of encouraging o-rapevine 
dispatches from the front, and then a little later, the whole town 
went wild with joy, and every gun thundered, and every flag 
waved proudly, and every man stood more erect, and every woman 
smiled with moist eyes and grateful heart, when the news came 
that that Kentucky boy, George Croghan, had won a splendid 
victory at Fort Stephenson, and thereby achieved immortality. 
Then in time came Perry's victory on Luke Erie, the taking of 
Maiden, and Harrison's great triumph over Proctor and Tecum- 
seh on the Thames. And then it was that captured British sol- 
diers were conducted through Franklinton to Chillicothe, and by 
this time the war was virtually over in the west, and a little later 
it was wholly ended and Mrs. Lucas SuUivant exclaimed: 
"Thank God!" 

When the war closed the glory of Franklinton disappeared. It 
then became a dull, uninteresting hamlet, occupied, as Judge 
William T. Martin in his history of Franklin county tells us, 
mainly by "farmers and laborers who * * * worked Mr. Sulli- 
vant's extensive prairie fields," or labored in the stone quames. 
"The proportion of rough population," writes another, "was very 
large." But even the rough population referred to consisted of 
strong men and stubborn fighters, who had an element of rugged 
justice in their hearts, which prompted them to wage fair battles. 
The old residents tell us of Billy Wyandot, an Indian who pur- 



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sued a bear to the middle of the Scioto, killed it, and then brought 
its carcass to the shore. This was a fair display of the brutal 
courage of the time, but it was perhaps excelled by a white man 
named Corbus, who, having occasion to meet a bear in combat, 
cast aside his weapons so that the bear's friends should be unable 
to claim he took unfair advantage of the beast, and then in a hand 
to claw, s(iuart', stand-up rough and tumble %ht to the death, he 
came olf finally with the honors of victory. These men were not 
what are called society people, and were not profound in their 
knowledge of theological dogmas, and they entertained withal 
peculiar notions with respect to dietary matters, and believed com 
whisky better for the human stomach than river water, but not- 
withstanding all this they fought fair fights, and asked odds of no- 
body. Let us, therefore, hope that Billy Wyandot and his bear 
and Jacob Corbus and his bear are living together today in royal 
good fellowship on that happy shore which lies beyond a river 
broader and murkier than the Scioto. 

But I am detaining you too long, and must conclude with a 
brief summary of facts. 

Judge Martin, in speaking of Franklin township in 1848, says: 
**The town of Franklinton has not varied much in population and 
business for forty years." The census reports show that in 1840 
it contained only 394 inhabitants, while Worthington at that time 
had 440. Franklinton was never an incorporated town, and 
never had either mayor, marshal or board of councilmen ; indeed 
it never had a government nor an existence separate, apart and in- 
dependent of Franklin township. In 1824 it ceased to be the 
seat of justice for Franklin county. Its last postmaster, ap- 
pointed in 1831, served for a few years, and then the postoffice 
was discontinued. The territory included within the limits of the 
town, and that south and west of it, was annexed to the city of 
Columbus from time to time, as follows: In 1862, the territory 
as far west as Lucas street; in 1870 the territory south of Town 
street, as far west as Sandusky street, and north of Town west as 
far as Darby street; in 1888 the territory as far west as Central 
avenue, betw^een Sullivant avenue on the south, and the P., C, C. 
& St. L. railroad on the north, and in 1891 other parts of Frank- 
lin township were taken into the city making its western boundary 
the (Sullivant) county road and Hague avenue. 

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It may be said that if Lucas Siillivant had not founded Frank- 
linton the capital of the state would not have been located where 
it is, and this is true. Franklinton on the west bank of the Scioto 
in 1810-12 called attention to the high ground on the east bank, 
and at the same time supplied a party of shrewd, energetic and 
interested men to urge its acceptance by the state, and still with 
all the influence the Franklinton syndicate could bring to bear 
upon the general assembly it came very near losing the prize it 
was so eager to obtain. The committee appointed by the legis- 
lature to examine the country within a certain area, and recom- 
mend a site, reported in favor of Dublin, and subsequently pledges 
were secured from a majority of the members of the general as- 
sembly in favor of Worthington; but finally after a long struggle 
the high bank opposite Franklinton was chosen. Worthington 
lost by a hair and Columbus won by a scratch. Time, however, 
which makes many, if not all things even, will soon do for Worth- 
ington what it has done for Franklinton, namely, bring it within 
the boundaries of the Capital City. And ultimately the pictur- 
esque region on the Scioto in the vicinity of Dublin will become 
an elegant suburb of Columbus, but thirty minutes' ride by 
electric cars from the state house. 

The changes which have taken place within the past one hun- 
dred years are marvelous. The first generation planted; the 
second watered, and the third gathered in a bountiful harvest. 
What the next three generations to follow us may accomplish, and 
what their haiwest may be, only infinite wisdom can foretell. The 
intervals of time between the eldest here today, and the fathers 
of a hundred years ago, and the youngest and those of a hundred 
} ears to come, seem so short that we are prompted to cry to those 
who have gone before us thanks and farewell, and then with 
anxious but hopeful hearts bid those who shall gather here a cen- 
tury hence, hail and godspeed ! 

AFTERlSrOON EXERCISES. 

It was past noon when General Beatty ceased speaking and the 
exercises at the platform were concluded. The audience which 
had perceptibly increased as the exercises progressed, quickly 
scattered, seeking shady spots for luncheon. 



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There were aquatic and ring sports beginning at 2 o'clock, 
under tlie management of George J. Karb, Christopher E-oss and 
Jiiciiard Owens. The events, entries, prizes and winners were 
as t"-'j!io\vs: 

One hundred-yard swimming race; prize, a rug donated by 
Heggs & Co.; entries, Charles Shields, Thomas Hannon and 
(jleorge Eoyer; won by Shields. 

Boys' swinmiing race, oU yards; prize, three song folios, do- 
nated by Goldsmith; entries, Harody Comstock, Bert Hicketts, 
Fred Nichols and Arch Siring; won by Comstock. 

Besides these events, Richard Owens, who is considered tli( 
best swimmer in Ohio, ate, drank and smoked under water and 
gave a line exhibition of swimming, using the overhand, under- 
hand, breast and other strokes. 

At the track, the hippodrome comj)any gave an exhibition con- 
sisting of chariot racing, bicycle racing, trapeze and hoop acts, 
trick elephant performance, etc. 

THE EVENING. 

In the evening there was a large throng upon the grounds. 
People went out from the city in street cars, in carriages and on 
bicycles. The transj^ortation facilities were tested and there 
was every indication that the facilities would have to be increased 
if all the people who desired to attend were to be accommodated. 

With sizzling electric lights, flaring gasoline torches and camp 
flres burning here and there, the scene from the hilltops was well 
worth looking at. An excellent view of the fii'eworks could be 
secured from the northern range of hills. West Broad street 
with its arches of Chinese lanterns, electric lights and hurrying 
cars crowded with people presented a brilliant scene. The dis- 
play of fireworks was elaborate. The hippodrome performance 
scheduled for the evening was omitted, but the historic tableaux 
were given with success. Colonel S. N. Cook, who had charge 
of the tableaux, was assisted by Buffalo tribe of Red Men and the 
ladies of Pocahontas society. 

The first tableau was designed to represent an incident in the 
life of the first child born in Franklinton — a girl baby whose 
mother was often visited by the Indians, especially on baking day. 



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One morning six warriors stopped at the cabin, and threw down 
a chunk of venison, helped themselves to the bread, then one of 
them, going to the cradle, took up the baby girl in his arms, and 
without a word of explanation to the mother, he and the other 
braves moved away, bearing with them the child. The following 
description of the tableaux was prepared by Colonel Cook, who 
designed them. 

First Picture — The first part of the picture shows the child's ab- 
duction, and the closing scene shows the mother watching the re- 
treating Indians, as they are bearing away her child. The cur- 
tain is drawn upon this scene, as the Indians disappear. An in- 
ten^al follows : 

AVhen the curtain again rises the mother is observed in the 
cabin, seated beside the empty cradle. Presently, in the distance 
on the road which winds about the hill, to the eastward of the 
cabin, appear the Indians, who that morning had taken the child. 
In the lead is the strong chief, bearing the baby girl. The mother 
does not see them approach; sitting alone, thinking of her loss. 
Silently the Indians approach the cabin, from the rear; the mother 
hears the footsteps; she looks around and sees in the arms of the 
leading Indian her child. With a cry she springs toward them, 
and proudly, the Indian shows, upon the baby's feet, a pair of 
beaded moccasins. The story of the Indians' friendship is thus 
told, by the child being restored to its mother. 

Second Picture — An old-time apple-paring, cutting and corn- 
husking. In the cabin are discovered a number of frontier maid- 
ens, busily engaged in paring and coring apples to dry. Some of 
them wishing to test fate, curl the long apple parings across their 
heads, letting them fall to the floor, and alighting, form an in- 
itial letter. 

Back of the cabin, on the hill side, and in view of the audience, 
are a number of hardy pioneers, engaged in husking corn. Fin- 
ally, the red ear is found, and the pioneer who finds the red ear 
is at liberty to kiss his choice of the maidens in the cabin. A rush 
is made toward the cabin by all the buskers, and confusion reigns 
within, and it may be added that some kisses are stolen, many by 
persons not fortunate enough to find the red ear. The curtain is 
drawn upon an old-time familiar scene, long before progressive 
euchre and theatre parties were even thought of. 



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I'liird Picture — Fate of Leatherlips. Leatherlips, the Wyan- 
dot friend of the wliite man, had been accused by his tribe of beinp' 
false to his people. He was tried and sentenced to death 
"When the curtain is drawn npon this picture, a group and a cabin, 
s^upposed to be Leatherlips' home, is disclosed. Here are six or 
seven Indians and two white men, the Davis brothers, whom 
LeatherH])s had befriended. The brothers had interceded for 
llic life of Leatherlips, but without avail. The picture when dis- 
closed shows Leatherlips standing' erect in the center of the group. 
The Indian braves are seated, the white men standing. Leather- 
lips, by his gestures, shows that he is not afraid to die, and bids 
them all a friendly farewell. He chants his death song; the war- 
riors moving about him keeping time to his song with their steps. 
When his chant is completed he abruptly leaves the cabin, goes to 
a spring outside the door, and prepares himself for death. Fin- 
ishing his ablutions, he returns to the cabin. While he was gone, 
the Davis brothers appeal to the Indians to revoke the edict of 
death ; the Indians refuse, and when Leatherlips steps into their 
midst, an oppressive silence prevails. Leatherlips folds his arms, 
and looks toward the sky, as if bidding good-bye to the sun that 
had guided his way day by day, and the star which had guided 
him by night. He then seats himself upon a stump, and calmly 
looks into his grave. A brave who had been standing beside the 
cabin rapidly approaches, with his drawn tomahawk in hand, 
brings it swiftly down ; the soul of the Indian friend of the white 
man had departed. Thus the scene closes. 

Fourth Picture — A cabin home, mother and daughter, a young 
maiden, little child are observed in the cabin. The child is at 
])lay and the mother and daughter are engaged in preparing sup- 
l)er. The maiden sets the table, while the mother is at work at 
the fireplace. The father is observed coming towards the cabin 
with game. He enters, fondles the little one, hangs his rifle up 
by the fireplace, takes off his coat and gets ready for his supper. 
They are seated about the table; a German neighbor appears who 
by his motions makes known the fact that he is hungry, and is 
invited to eat. He makes a terrible onslaught upon the victuals. 

A band of Indians are seen approaching along the trail to the 
east of the cabin. Nearing the cabin they disappear from sight 



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on the wooded hill, shortly reappearing- on the open hillside im- 
mediately in the rear of the cabin. Stealthily and silently they 
creep near the home of the settler; they are unobserved until about 
to enter, when they enter with their war whoop. The occupants 
of the cabin spring to their feet; the German hides under the 
table, while the father, gets ready to defend his family. Picture, 
lights and curtain. 

Fifth Picture — The triumph of civilization. A young woods- 
man appears upon the trail; he is met by an Indian girl, who 
comes from towards the cabin; he pauses to talk with her; she 
seeming by her gestures, is warning him that the Indians are near. 
They are nearer, however, than she is aware of, as in the shadows 
of the wood, their dusky forms may be seen dodging from tree to 
tree. The young hunter is telling of the approach of an anned 
band of white men, who come from Marietta and other points 
along the Ohio river. These white men having heard of the 
depredations committed by the Indians, have come to drive them 
from the new white settlements on the Scioto. After the Indian 
girl leaves the white man pauses to examine his rifle. Meantime, 
a portion of the band of Indians are seen to "move out from the 
trees, for the purpose of intercepting him. One or two are left 
behind to cut off his retreat, should he attempt to escape. 

Suddenly he spies the Indians in front of him; at once he turns 
to run, then follows the race for life. Fleet as he is he cannot 
escape his pursuers. He is captured, brought to a tree near the 
cabin, where he is bound, and preparations are made to burn him 
alive. He is scarce bound to the tree, until the Indian girl is 
seen and disappears swiftly toward the west. The fire about 
the bound man had scarce begun to burn, and the death dance of 
the Indians had just gotten under way, when the white men ap- 
pear over the hill, led by the Indian girl. For a moment she dis- 
appears, and the fight between the whites and Indians begins. 
The battle is fierce, and the Indians are surrounded, one or two 
escape, others are killed, and some wounded. The Indian 
maiden swiftly approaches and releases the white man as the cap- 
tured Indians are led into the cabin by the victorious white men. 

The released prisoner then enters, taking from an Indian pris- 
oner his tomahawk, and he is about to brain the prisoners, being 



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wroiiglit into a frouzy h\ his treatment from them. The leader of 
the band of white men here interposes, saying: '"These men are 
prisoners of war; as barbarous peoples make few prisoners, civil- 
ization saves the lives of its captives," and thus as the picture is 
formed, and the lights thrown upon the last of the historic pic- 
tures, we find the ''Triumph of Civilization." 

The characters in the death of Leatherlips were portrayed by 
tlie following persons: Leatherlips, S. O. McCollum; execu- 
tioner, C C C'oit: braves, George W. Bryan, N. Lamaster, J. L. 
(jrcrhich, J. C. Nicholson; white men, Dan Phillips, R. H. Ed- 
wards. 

Following are the members of Buffalo tribe and others who 
took leading parts in the various tableaux as outlined above : T. 
W. Hayden, Henry Bankert, George Schrader, R. H. Edwards, 

C. A. Derer, J. C. Nicholson, S. O. McCollum, George Bryan, 

D. T. Phillips, Miles Bryan, C. C. Coit, N. Lamaster, John 
Hasenzahl, R. AV. Petrey, J. C. Abrams, M. V. Segraves, J. L. 
Gerlach, D. N. Moore, Mrs. Dell Phillips, Harry Coit, Maud 
Hazen, aged 4, daughter of W. P. Hazen, and Chester Dotson, 
infant son of Charles Dotson. 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE SECOND DAY — OFFICIAL PROGRAM. 



i)/4i) a. m. — Parade of military, civic, secret and industrial 
societies. 

11:30 a. m. — Flag raising; addresses and patriotic songs by a 
children's chorus at the southwest corner of Broad and Sandusky 
streets, the site of the old Lucas Sullivant mansion and near the 
place where the first Franklin county court house stood, under the 
direction of Rev. D. A. Clarke. 

2 p. m. — Platform exercises at centennial grounds, Hon. Sam- 
uel L. Black, chairman; music, Fourteenth Regiment band; in- 
troduction of chairman, Hon. D. J. Clahane; address of Hon. M. 
A. Hanna, United States senator; address by Rt. Rev. John A. 
AVatterson, bishop of Oolumbus; music, Fourteenth Regiment 
band; address. Colonel E. L. Taylor; music. Fourteenth Regiment 
band. 

4 p. m. — Aquatic sports, including watermelon grab, hurdle 
races, walking greased pole and catching greased pig in water, 
races and exhibitions of scientific swimming by Professor Richard 
Owens; bicycle races and trick elephant. 

8 p. m. — Historic tableaux; aerial acts; fiying and balancing 
trapeze; fire works. 



The second day of the centennial was hot and dusty, but before 
it was half spent unimpeachable testimony had been given as to 
the deep popular interest in the event. The grand parade was the 
first thing on the program and long before o'clock people began 
to pour into High street from every direction, seeking points of 
vantage from which to review the promised pageant. Clanging 
street cars, carriages and buggies bore down the arteries yet open 



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and ciuptied thoir freight upon tlie central thoroughfare. At 
the hour for tlie starting of the parade, High street was from 
Union Station to Court House an avenue lined on either side by 
a mass of eager, jostling but good natured humanity. Broad 
street also, from High to Sixth was thronged, for it was here that 
the parade was to form. Specifically under the order issued by 
Chairman Patton, of the parade committee and grand marshal 
of the parade, the military division foraied on Broad street, right 
resting on Grant avenue and deploying east; the civic division* 
formed on Sixth street, right resing on Broad and deploying 
south ; the industrial division formed on Fifth street, right resting 
on Broad and deploying south to State and then east. The line of 
march had been announced as follows: From the point of for- 
mation of the first division, west on Broad to Third street, south on 




RACE TRACK AT CENTENNIAI, GROUNDS. 



Third to Mound street, west on Mound to High, north on High to 
Chestnut, west on Chestnut to Front, south on Front to Broad, 
west on Broad, stopping at the corner of Broad and Sandusky 
street to engage in the celebration prepared by Rev. D. A. Clarke, 
the parade to disband a short distance west of that point. 

There was some unavoidable delay in the formation of the 
parade and it was 10 o'clock when the signal gun was fired in the 
State House yard and Grand Marshal Patton gave the order, 
"March!" At the head of the line, for the purpose of clearing 
the street for the parade, were patrol wagon ^o. 1, in w^hich rode 
Director of Public Safety William Williams and Police Surgeon 
Kahn and the city ambulance, in which rode Dr. W. W. Holmes, 



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city physician. Immediately following- the two wagons came 
Captain Reeb with his platoon of stalwart police officers extending 
clear across the street, and then a second platoon commanded by 
Sergeant Barry. 

Following the ]iolice came the Jnnia Hussars (mounted) in 
command of Captain J. C. L. Pugh and acting as escort for the 
grand marshal and staif. Colonel A. G. Patton, grand marshal 
of the parade, came next with his staff composed of Captain Alfred 
E. Lee, who acted as his adjutant, and Samuel Borger, Captain 
J. F. Oglevee, George H. Jenkins, Thomas E. Knauss and David 
T^olenbaugh, all of whom were mounted. In addition to the fore- 
going, Grand Marshal Patton made the members of the centen- 
nial executive committee members of his staff and they followed 
the mounted members on foot. They were Messrs. D. J. Cla- 
hane, K M. Rownd, George W. Bright, Daniel McAlister, F. W. 
Hubbard, E. O. Randall, Judge Tod B. Galloway and Ed. F. 
Ileinrich, the last named representing the board of education. 

l^ext came Colonel J. S. Poland, division commander, and the 
following members of the Seventeenth infantry acting as aides: 
Lieutenant W. C. Wren, adjutant; second Lieutenant J. E. 
Pilcher, assistant sergeant; Lieutenant R. W. Dowdy, quarter- 
master, and Lieutenant B. F. Hardway. 

Following Division Commander Poland and aides came the 
Seventeenth Regiment band and the Seventeenth regiment, Cap- 
tain C. S. Roberts in command, with Lieutenant T. L. Smith as 
adjutant. Company C was in command of Lieutenant D. L. 
Cordray, and Company F in command of Captain Chubb. Then 
came companies B and G, of the same regiment, headed by the 
Fourteenth regiment band, the use of which was tendered them by 
the gallant Fourteenth on account of the large turnout of the 
regulars. Lieutenant B. Iv. Hart was in command of company 
B, and Lieutenant Arthur Johnson of company G. 

Following the Seventeenth regiment came three carriages con- 
taining the following city officials : First carriage, Mayor Sam- 
uel L. Black, President of Council Mark Elleman, City Clerk 
John M. Doane and Councilman Wilbur E. King. Second car- 
riage, Councilmen Hartley, Boesel, Hayes and Assistant City 
Clerk Lloyd Myers; third carriage, Councilmen Reynolds and 
Hirsch and Building Inspector Dauben. 



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Followiiio' tlio carriages canu' tlirce ooiiipaiiies of the Four- 
teenth O. X. G., eoiiunandcd by Major Speaks and aides, Sergeant 
Freeman, Lieutenant Harry Krumm, adjutant, and Lieutenant 
p]. M. rielwagen. 

Tlie three companies of tlie Fourteenth that turned out were 
A, ill command of Captain J. J. Walsh; B, in connnand of Cap- 
tain \V. S. AVhite, and C, in command of Lieutenant Graham. 

Com]:>any P>, of the Ninth battalion (colored), followed th« 
Fourteenth and was commanded by C^aptain Hopkins. 

The second division was in charge of Colonel Moses H. Neil, 
and was composed of the civic and secret societies embracing in 
its make-up several of the most noted societies in the city. 

Colonel Neil's staif was composed of the following: Colonel 
J. C. L. Pugh, chief; with the following aides: W. J. Camnitz, 
llarhin P. .Tudd, Charles A. Pearce, Jay J. Barbour, C. J. Cruse 
of Walhonding tribe Ked Men; H. M. Innis, Algonquin; Henry 
Stcmple, Scioto; Frank B. Cameron, Buffalo*; Chief Matheny, 
Heaver; Chief Barry, Altoma; (liief Shotwell, Olentangy; David 
Lewis Deerfoot. , , 

The second division was headed by Neddermeyer's celebrated 
band of twenty pieces, with Professor Neddermeyer in the ranks. 
Then came St. Joseph's commandery. Knights of St. John. This 
commandery was in charge of Captain Rice and presented a fine 
a])pearance, with their elegant uniforms and flowing white 
plumes. 

Following came a division of Knights of Pythias, soldierly ap- 
|)caring men; then the uniformed rank of Red Men, maneuvering 
as they went and eliciting applause; then the Lincoln, Cedar and 
Arbor Vitae Camps of Woodmen of the World, gay with para- 
])hemalia; then Red Men in full regalia, witli painted faces, 
feathers and tomahawk. Ladies of Pocahontas and Hiawatha 
tribes, dressed as squaws, followed in carriages. 

The third division of the parade was a display of the industries 
and manufacturing interests of the capital city. It was one of 
the largest divisions of the whole ])arade. Tt was in command 
of Colonel A. B. Coit, of the Ohio National Guard, with Mr. D. 
A, Agler as aide: 

The positions of the various industrial displays were as 
follows: 



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1. Capital City Dairy ( \)in})any, four wagons. 

2. Hayden's chain factory, two floats. 

3. Chainniakers' Union No. 6587. 

4. Urlin & Pfeifer's display. 

5. T>. C. Beggs & Co., two wagons. 

6. J. r. Williams & Sons, one wagon. 

7. Eberly & Eobb, ten wagons. 

8. Frank A111)i'iglit & Co., one wagon. 

9. George Janton & Co., one wagon. 

10. I. E. Webb, grocers. 

11. George Janton & Sons, soaps. 

12. Pfaltzgraf & Co. 

13. Carlisle & Co., furniture. 

14. John Shrum & Co., ice cream. 

15. Tramp orator. 
IG. G. W. Dozer. 

17. Lane & (*o., photograjihers. 

18. Columbus Trunk and Luggage (^ompany. 

19. Columbus Bicycle Company. 

20. Elliott's bakery, ten wagons. 

21. Ed. Logan, grocer. 

22. W. A. Snider, grocer. 

Features of this division were the Frlin ife Pfeifer float on 
which was seated a little miss about to have her picture taken; the 
Hayden factory floats showing, one a house of polished chain and 
the other chain in immense coils; the Columbus Bicycle Com- 
pany's display of bicycles, arranged in pyramid, on the apex of 
which sat a fair nineteenth century girl; and the Dairy Com- 
l)any's wagons, in front of which mrached a number of employes 
dressed in white linen suits, linen hats and black neckties. 

By prearrangement the Bamum & Bailey circus and mena- 
gerie, which chanced to be in the city for an exhibition, added its 
parade to that of the centennial. It was put in as the second 
grand division, and followed the industrial display. First came 
the couriers, and after them, the great and only forty -horse driver, 
John Thomas, who is the veteran driver of the century. The 
forty horses were four abreast, and they })resented an attractive 
ai)pearance as they galloped down the streets. 



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Following the 40-horse team were the wild animals in open 
cages, consisting of lions, bears, tigers and leopards, the great 
iinisical wagon, ladies and gentlemen on horseback, Roman 
cluiridts, wagons with bands, representatives of foreign countries, 
camels, 20 elephants in a drove, the children's delight, Santa 
( 'lans, Mother Goose, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Little Red Rid- 
ing Hood; then came the clowns in their odd regalia, cavaliers on 
horseback, ladies in wagons, the Queen of Sheba, warriors on 
hors('l)ack, Indian scpiaws, warriors and pappooses, concluding 
with the calliope. 




HIGHI^AND AVENUE SCHOOL HOUSE IN WHICH THE REWCS WERE 
DISPLAYED. 

FLAG-RAISING EXERCISES. 

Pursuing the route previously outlined, the centennial parade 
halted at Broad and Sandusky streets and disbanded in order to 
],articipate in the flag-raising exercises on the grounds of the 
Convent of the Good Shepherd. This location was chosen by 
Rev. D. A. Clarke, pastor of the Holy Family church, Frank- 
linton, and originator of the centennial, as most appropriate for 
such a demonstration, since it was formerly the center of activity 



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of the old town, the site of the homestecad of Lucas Sullivant and 
directly across the street from the first seat of justice of Franklin 
county. A large stand richly decorated with flags and bunting 
had been erected, and upon it were arranged about seventy-five 
little girls from the Convent of the Good Shepherd and Holy 
Family schools, and a number of distinguished persons, with a 
few of the representative old residents. 

The children from the convent wore dresses of blue, while those 
from the school were arrayed in white, all in sashes of the Ameri- 
can colors. 

The clergy were represented by Rt. Rev. Bishop Watterson, 
Rev. D. A. Clarke, Rev. IST. C. Helfrich, of the Presbyterian 
church; Rev. W. L. Lemon, of the Baptist church. Amongst 
the old settlers occupying seats upon the platform were Mr. 
Joseph Sullivant and sisters, grandchildren of Lucas Sullivant, 
founder of Franklinton; Mr. Richard Sinclair, Major Fleming, 
Mr. John Short. Colonel J. L. Rodgers, private secretary of the 
governor,' was seated upon the platform, representing the state. 
The mayor could not be present. 

All the buildings of the neighborhood were gaily decked in 
festive designs and national colors whilst immense crowds of 
people filled the streets in every direction in the vicinity. 

When order had been obtained Father Clarke stepped to the 
front of the stand and delivered the following address: 

My Fellow-Citizens — The pleasing and distinguishing duty of 
introducing our little exercises here today seems to devolve upon 
me. The centennial celebration of the foundation of Columbus 
is now well on, and our citizens with patriotic pride, are telling 
of the wonderful growth of this capital of our gi-and old state. It 
is a patriotic occasion, indeed, and well do we observe it as such. 
It is time, too, for fraternal greetings and hearty congratulations 
since country is made dearer to us by the ties of home and olden 
friends who come from far and near to rehearse the scenes of long, 
long ago. It is peculiarly appropriate, therefore, that the soul- 
inspiring colors of our country's flag should everywhere be in 
evidence today. Look where you will, be it to the church spire, 
to the schoolhouse top, to the roof of palatial residence or humble 
cot, to the busy street, to tlie quiet lane or to the signboards of 



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commercial activity; anywliere and everywhere the inspiring 
sight of the red, white and bkie presents to the patriotic eye a 
scene that will linger long in the memory of the young genera- 
tion. We are here on truly patriotic, as well as historic ground, 
and we can in no better manner attest our appreciation of the fact 
than by honoring the banner, under whose protecting folds, our 
city, as an integral portion of our great state and nation, bearing 
as it does the name of America's discoverer, has made such pro- 
gress in the general, rapid development of this western territory. 
AVe raise, then, our country's flag in glory today and present to it 
our profound patriotic homage, in gladsome recognition of old 
Franklinton's centennial, and as an object lesson to the younger 
amongst us, who, with their descendants, shall continue to make 
the historic period of another hundred years. 

When raised by the hand of Lucas Sullivant it unfolded its 
colors to the breezes, one hundred years ago, its union of stars 
numbered only sixteen; today there twinkles in its heavenly blue 
a constellation of forty-five. Within that century it has passed 
through many trying crises. It is battlescarred, but yet un- 
wounded, with its hues as brilliant as when first borrowed from 
heaven's vault. I am trespassing upon the time allotted to our 
exercises and the hour is near midday. We will proceed with the 
simple program by the children. 

At the conclusion of these remarks, the Fourteenth regiment 
band, stationed within the convent grounds, back of the stand, 
played "'America." This was followed by a chorus, "Columbia." 
The band played "Hail Columbia," and whilst the children sang 
the chorus, "Unfurl the Glorious Banner," Miss Rosa Dolhoover, 
costumed as the Goddess of Liberty, stepped upon an elevated 
dais and slowly raised the magnificent flag to the top of a hand- 
somely finished seventy-foot pole erected to the rear of the stand 
upon the convent grounds. As the emblem of our liberties 
reached the summit of the staff, beneath the golden globe, a sym- 
pathetic breeze unfurled it to its full proportions and it floated 
proudly and triumphantly. A great cheer went up from the 
spectators. Miss May Fitzgerald came forward and recited in an 
artistic and effective manner, "The Star Spangled Banner." 
After chorus, "Guard the Flag," by the children, Rt. Rev. 



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Bishop Watterson was introduced, who, after the applause oc- 
casioned by his appearance liad subsided, spoke in substance as 
follows : 

People of Ohio — I arise simply to offer the centennial greet- 
ings of the children, who, having their homes and receiving their 
education on the site of the residence of Lucas Sullivant, founder 
of this city, are here to sing their patriotic songs and unfurl 
the stars and stripes in testimony and to show their love of coun- 
try, and their gratitude to God for the favors He has bestowed on 
them, and to the state of Ohio for the protection it has always 
given to institutions of education and of charity. They are here 
to show their reverence for the memory of Lucas Sullivant and 
respect for his grandchildren and great grandchildren who are 
united with us in this joyous celebration. 

This spot on which we stand was in the days of Mr. Sullivant 
the home of hospitality and kindness ; it is still the home of benefi- 
cence and charity and only God knows the good that has been here 
done during the last 30 years or more. 

All honor to Lucas Sullivant and those who have done so much 
for our city; all honor to the flag unfurled on this hallowed spot 
and prosperity to the city and its people ; and may the next centen- 
nial see still larger and greater glories of Columbus. 

At the conclusion of the Bishop's address, Father Clarke, who 
had presided throughout the exercises, introduced Mr. Joseph 
Sullivant to the audience, but this gentleman, not accustomed to 
public speaking, arose and bowed his acknowledgments, amid 
much applause. The concluding chorus, "Auld Lang Syne," 
was sung by the children and after three hearty cheers for "our 
grand old flag" and the Eranklinton centennial, the exercises were 
declared at an end. 



AT THE CENTENNIAL GROUNDS. 

People began early in the d?y to gather at the centennial 
grounds. Many brought lunches which they ate in shady spots. 
There were reunions of friends in which interesting reminiscences 
of early times were recounted. 



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SENATOR M. A. HANNA'S SPEECH. 

Mayor Samuel L. Black was the presiding officer at the formal 
exercises of the afteruoon. After music by the Fourteenth Regi- 
ment band, Senator M. A. Ilanna was introduced and spoke 
as follows: 

'^Friends and Fellow-Citizens — I have come here today rather 
to make an apology for not fulfilling my part of the advertised 
I^rogram than to make an address. I have been suffering all day, 
and am here under ]n'otest, and rather than disappoint those who 




COLLECTION OF RELICS BELONGING TO MRS. LYONS. 

expected to see me, I rise to say a few words, or at least to express 
my feelings of gratification at being a jruest on this occasion of the 
people of Columbus, a sister city and almost a rival one to my 
own. It is an interesting occasion; interesting to you because 
of its historical associations; interesting to me because I am proud 
to say that I myself belong to a family of the pioneers of Ohio. 



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"When boys we were not fond of hearing onr fathers tell us 
how they were brought up and what they were obliged to do in 
tlieir boyhood and manhood to make their way in the world, but 
when we come to talk about our grandfathers, who carried a rifle 
on one shoulder and an ax on the other, then we are proud of our 
ancestors and their primitive ways. Those who hewed their way 
in the first steps of civilization in the now great commonwealth 
of Ohio never thought during those days of vicissitude and 
danger that they were laying the foundation of one of the great- 
est commonwealths on which the sun has ever shone. Ohio is 
the watchword of progress to everybody. Ohio means more to 
us than all beyond, and those of you who have been the builders 
and are now building this great city of yours must know and feel 
the honor, the pride and the responsibility of your task of building 
upon this foundation laid by the ])ioneers whose honor we cele- 
brate today, a foundation primitive, it is true, but lasting in its 
pride, hope and faith. Upon that rise your efforts. Upon that 
you build to further greatness, hoping that your efforts in another 
century will be placed along parallel lines with those who went 
before you. 

"The aggregation of people in large communities is one of the 
things that attract the attention of all of us. Wealthy govern- 
ment in municipal affairs is quite another proposition. It calls 
forth the unselfishness of our natures. It calls for a freemasonry 
of the human family. 

"There is above and outside of all political questions one ques- 
tion which appeals to every citizen. I mean the institutions of 
American civilization that are trulv American. The feed of 
such civilization is shown in the public schools of our great cities. 
I said to the children on your state fair ground the other day, 
that it was my good fortune to begin my education in the first 
year of the beginning of our public schools. I thank God that I 
had that opportunity. I thank God that my life has been spared 
to see the growth of these institutions of our country. It is from 
these institutions that our children get their first inspiration of 
self-government, morality and religion in social life. It is to 
these institutions and the education received from them that we 
must look for the future of our commonwealth of the great cities. 



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To them and their school children we look for the coming genera- 
tion to improve upon those of iis who have had more experience. 
"1 wish 1 had the strength and the ability to tell the people of 
( '(tluiiil)iis how iiiucli is (hie to their enterprise and to their in- 
dustries of tlie growth of their great city from an industrial stand- 
point. 1 dare not trench upon the political lines of that question 
before an audience Hkc this, but it is a pride that every citizen of 
Ohio carries witli him that you have built here a great industrial 
center by people whose morality and religious observance have 
made it a city of virtue. Therefore as your friend from a rival 
city I t^ke this opportunity of congratulating the citizens of Co- 
lumbus and to prophesy that ere 100 years more have rolled 
away what seems a monster today will seem insignificant in com- 
parison. You are doing a great work for yourselves and human- 
ity. Pursue that work and you will attain a success that will 
make any mayor who succeeds Mayor Black proud that he may 
preside over such a city," 

BTSKOP JOHA^ A. AVATTEESOTiT'S SPEECH. 

Senator Hanna was followed by the Right Rev. John A. Wat- 
terson, bishop of the Cohunbus diocese, who spoke as follows: 

''Look here upon this picture and on this." — Hamlet. 
Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen: 

Some years ago Miss Anna Dickinson was engaged to deliver 
a lecture on Joan d'Arc, the maid of Orleans, in a western town. 
Tlie task of introducing her to the audience fell on the chairman 
of the lecture committee, a very worthy man, but evidently not 
well up in history. ''Ladies and gentlemen," said he, advancing 
to the front of the platform, ''Miss Dickinson will address you to- 
night on the stirring life and exciting adventures of John Dark, 
one of the greatest heroes of antiquity. We ourselves," he went 
on to say, "are not as familiar with the heroes of antiquity as we 
ought to be, on account of the length of time between antiquity 
and us; but Miss Dickinson is, and she will doubtless throw much 
interesting light on that most remarkable man of them all, John 
Dark." I am afraid the worthy chairman unwittingly insinuated 
that ]\riss Anna was one of the anti(i[uities herself. Now, T am 
not as familiar with the heroes of Franklinton antiquity as I 



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ought to be, owing to the long time between them and me; but 
General Beatty is well acquainted with them, perhaps for the 
reason Anna was in the other case ; for he told you all about them 
yesterday in his masterly historical address; and for a like reason 
the venerable Daniel McAlister is also, for he is able to exhibit to 
you a very interesting collection of their relics; and so also with 
others who related the history of the city yesterday; but I doubt 
whether Mr. Hanna is, because, like me, he is still quite young, 
and for some time past he has certainly been more concerned 
about the moderns than the ancients. 

Centennial celebrations are becoming very frequent and popu- 
lar among us. Even women (when they get to be a hundred), 
like to have their ages known and celebrated. But until twenty- 
five or thirty years ago, we Americans, as a rule, took but little 
interest in the past. The present and its cares absorbed the at- 
tention of our people; but the love of antiquity is in us; and rev- 
erence for all that is great and venerable in the pioneer history of 
our own country has quickened in our hearts and become a nurs- 
ing principle of patriotism. There are some things which, in- 
stead of acquiring dignity with age, are apt to lose their respecta- 
l)ility with their youth ; but it is not so with the sturdy cities of 
our developing republic. The older they get the more they seem 
to combine the respectability and venerableness of age with 
growth and vigor of continued youth; and Franklinton and Co- 
lumbus are not exceptions to the rule. What a contrast between 
1797, when Lucas Sullivant laid the foundations of this city, 
and 1897, when his grandchildren and great grand children and 
the descendants of others who came here in the hard days of its 
beginnings, are joined with us in the joyous celebration of its first 
centennial! All around us a century ago was a wild, unbroken 
wilderness, the hunting grounds of the savage redman ; here the 
Shawnee and the Wyandot roamed the intricate forests or sat 
around the solemn council fires. 

A few years before the settlement of Franklinton, a fierce 
Indian war had raged over much of the Ohio country. General 
Harmar had been defeated; and in 1791 General St. Clair saw his 
army also cut to pieces. The savages had risen up to kill or to 
expel every white man within the territory; but in the summer 



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of 1794, the old rcvolutionarv hero, Mad Anthony Wayne, sent 
out by President Wasliington, gained a decisive victory at Fallen 
Timbers, and compelled the Indians in the following year to sign 
the treaty by which they surrendered all the country as far west 
as the Wabash, and thus opened up Ohio to the peaceful advance 
of the pale face. It was then that the sturdy pioneers of civiliza- 
tion began to build their log cabins and make their clearings in 
the forests; but what tongue can tell or pen describe the hardships 
and privations, the dangers and distresses which they suffered? 




SCENE IN IHK RELICS DISPLAY, HIGHLAND AVENUE SCHOOL BUILDING. 

Of the material comforts and conveniences of life they had liter- 
ally none. There was absolutely nothing but the soil itself, noth- 
ing, but the rough hands and rude implements of the settler to re- 
deem it from its savagery. Means of travel and transporation 
were most difficult and tedious. ITp to the beginning of this 
century indeed, only three roads had been cut through the forests 
from the east to the vast Ohio region, and those of so rude and 
rough a sort that wagons crept with difficulty over them at the 
rate of a couple of miles an hour; and as for the intellectual re- 



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fiiienionts and social solaces of life, tlicv were something to dream 
of and sia,lj for, but hardly to enjoy. 

J^nt what a change a centnrv has wronght! AVhat material 
greatness on every side in these brighter days of ours! What ad- 
vance in the arts that make life smooth and pleasant. The very 
elements subserve our wants, promote our intercourse and antici- 
pate our habitual impatience. The ])alatial steamship and rail- 
way carriage, natural and artiticial gas, the telegraph, the tele- 
phone, the electric light and motive ])ower, and other wonderful 
inventions are luxuries so common now that we almost cease to 
think of the marvellous forces which they represent. Science 
is the common servant. Nothing that can add to the ease and 
pleasure of life is too mighty or too minute for her to ])lace at 
our disposal. By her aid we have dispelled the utter darkness 
of the winter nights and made good the unfruitfulness of the 
winter season. For us she unites the ends of the earth and brings 
to the daily service of the north the produce of the southern 
tropics. The luxuries of the last generation are become the ne- 
cessities of this. Things utterly unknown to our forefathers 
are essential now. At no period, notwithstanding occasional 
tem2)orary variations, was wealth more widely spread or comfort 
more diffused; and if, according to the promise, the poor we have 
always with us, we have reared numerous comfortable homes of 
refuge and protection for the very wretched and helpless. And 
not only is our power over physical nature greater than it ever 
Avas, but every day new practical applications are made of it for 
the increase of the conveniences of life. But we are not only 
rich in material enjoyments. 

What intellectual pleasures are offered to us I What wealth 
of literature gathered from every corner of the earth and placed 
before us through the marvelous power of the modern printing- 
press! The masterpieces of ancient greatness, when the intellect 
of man was at its highest, down to the latest glories of the genius 
of our own times, all the poetr}% the philosophy, the history, the 
romance of all the ages, are put so easily and readily within our 
reach. Ours is all that can satisfy the understanding, fascinate 
the imagination or dazzle the memory. And then in the social 
world today what refinement of manners, what cultivated taste, 



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what extensive knowledft'e ! Travelers, laden with the intellect- 
ual and artistie spoils of many countries, gratify every day our 
natural curiosity and eager thirst for information. And what 
paths of ambition our times ojjen up to the gifted and energetic 
intellect ! What prospects of usefulness and j)ower and how wide 
a sphere of action are oifered to successful talent, it matters not 
from what condition or grade of life it comes! What a singular 
contrast these brilliant triumphs of our day present to the hum- 
bler, but not less important victories of a century ago! "Going, 
the men of 1797 and those who intervened between them and 
us, went and wept and sowed the seed; but coming, we are come 
with joyfulness, carrying their sheaA'es," tlie fruits of their toil 
and patience, and it is largely our own fault if we are not a happy 
l)eople. 

Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen, this centennial cele- 
bration should therefore remind us of the gratitude we owe our 
fathers for what they achieved for us. It should call forth our 
patriotic resolution to imitate all that was good and great in 
them, and to use what they be(|ueathed, not only for our own 
advantage, but the common weal. It shoidd evoke our thanks- 
giving to Almighty God, under whose gi'acious i)rovidence Co- 
lumbus has grown from small beginnings to the great and beau- 
tiful city that it is today, and our regrets for nmch misuse of 
His blessed gifts; for He looks beneath the glittering surface 
of temporal prosperity, and, as the searcher of the reins and 
of the heart, sees whether, with all our material, intellectual and 
social advantages, we stand as well in His sight as those to whom 
not so much was given and from whom, mayhap. He expected 
not so much, but received much more of gratitude and praise. 

COLONEL E. L. TAYLOll'S ADDRESS. 

After music b}' the band. Colonel E. L. Taylor was intro- 
duced as the orator selected to ])ortray the character and life 
of the Indians who inhabited central Ohio when Franklinton was 
founded. Colonel Taylor spoke as follows: 

Wo are engaged today in celebrating an event uf a hundred 
years ago which was then api)arently unimportant, but which 
has led on to great and pcrnuuient results. A hundred ^ears 



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ago a few intelligent and detcrniiiicd white men settled here in 
the then unbroken wilderness, whiedi settlement soon became 
and has ever since remained the center of a far-pervading sal- 
utary influence. It was one of tlie important and permanent 
steps toward reducing to cultivation and civilization the great 
wilderness of the Northwest, of which Ohio was a part. When 
we look abroad and behold the wondrous transformation which 
luis taken place since Lucas Sullivant and his few associates built 
their cabins near this spot, our minds are filled with amazement 
at the results, and our hearts with thankfulness and gratitude 
to Him who has so wisely guided and bounteously blest us as a 
community and a people. This event was the beginning of the 
settlement of Central Ohio and the foundation of the present 
City of Columbus, which now embraces the town of Franklin- 
ton. If there had been no Franklinton there would have been 
no Columbus; and so those few rude cabins have within a hun- 
dred years developed into a great and prosperous city, with its 
trade and commerce and thousands of happy homes. 

The celebration of this event will be of ever increasing in- 
terest as the centuries go by. It marked a new and most im- 
portant era in the history of Ohio, and particularly in that of 
Franklin and adjoining counties. It was but eleven years be- 
fore the settlement of Franklinton that so intelligent a states- 
man as James Monroe, after a visit to the then wilderness of Ohio 
for the purpose of informing himself as accurately as possible 
as to the character and condition of the ISTorthwest territory, 
wrote to Thomas Jefferson as follows: 

"A great part of the territory is miserably poor, especially 
that near Lakes Michigan and Erie; and that upon the Missis- 
sippi and the Illinois consists of extensive plains which have 
not had, from appearance, and Avill not have, a single bush on 
them for ages. The districts, therefore, within which these fall, 
will, perhaps, never contain a sufficient number of inhabitants 
to entitle them to membership in the confederacy (of states) and 
in the meantime the people who may settle within them will be 
governed by the resolutions of congress, in which they will not 
be represented." 

The territory referred to by Mr. Monroe included what is 



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now the States of Oliio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan andAViscon- 
sin. At that time there were no permanent settlements by the 
wliite race within all this vast territory, and with the exception 
of a few Frc))ch traders and a few captives among the Indians, 
there were within it no white people. It was an unclaimed and 
unbroken wilderness. Within this territory there are now five 
of the most populous and prosperous states in the Union, con- 
lainiiiii' lialf a hundred cities and uuiny hundreds of prosperous 
towns and villages, and a population of fifteen millions of people 
living under conditions of prosperity and happiness, of morality 
and intelligence not surpassed by any community of equal mag- 
nitude whi(di has ever existed in the history of the world. 





OLD FRANKLINTON COURT HOUSE WEATHER VANE, RIDDLED WITH 
BULLETS, ETC. — OWNED BY W B. SMITH. 

For all of this we should rejoice and be exceedingly glad, 
but in our rejoicing we must not forget that other peoples and 
other races once occupied this territory and here lived and ener- 
gized for many centuries — possibly for several thousands of 
years — before the advent of the white man. It is concerning 
these, our immediate predecessors, the Indians, and their man- 
ner of life that I have been requested to speak today. 

We are too apt to think of the Indian as a lurking, dan- 
gerous, unrelenting savage, infesting the forest and living with- 
(■•ut laws or restrictions of any kind, and with no intentions but 
of evil. This view is both erroneous and unjust. It is true 



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that tkey were alert and dangerous as enemies when once they 
were made enemies, but when we shall have learned a broader 
charity, and truth instead of prejudice and fiction shall be re- 
corded as history, it will be found that the Indian has not always 
been the aggressor, and was not by nature the cruel savage as 
generally assumed and represented. We, the white people, have 
written all the history so far, but a more impartial view will 
yet be made, when it will appear that the cruel and vindictive 
acts of the Indians were largely the result of the cruel and 
vindictive acts of the white men. They were not at worst more 
fierce or savage than many of the white men with whom they 
came in contact; and in truth they could have been, for history 
records no darker or bloodier crimes than those which have been 
committed by our race against the Indian tribes. The massa- 
cre of the Moravian Indians in 1782 on the soil of Ohio in the 
now county of Tuscarawas, and the murder of Chief Cornstalk 
and his son Elenipsies in 1777 at Point Pleasant, will always 
remain among the darkest, most dreadful and disgraceful pages 
in American history. A thousand other atrocities of various 
natures shame and disgrace the history of our contact with the 
Indian tribes whom we call savages, and largely rob us of the 
right to claim superiority over them, save in the matter of edu- 
cation and physical force. 

They had no written laws, but they had rules of tribal and 
family government, which had all the force of laws. They 
had no written language and but a limited vocabulary, but 
many of them were gifted with marvelous eloquence of speech; 
and it would be easy to cite among their reported speeches nu- 
merous examples of elocjuence, which, except for want of classic 
form, would rank little below the best efforts of the best Eng- 
lish-speaking orators. They had neither courts nor judges, 
but they dealt justly with each other and guarded individual 
rights with jealous care. They had no military schools, but 
they developed brave and skillful warriors, and the names of 
Pontiac, Tecumseh, Crane, Cornstalk, Solamon and many other 
chiefs will remain a permanent part of the history of the long 
and bloody contests between the Indian tribes and white men 
for the possession of the territory of the great Northwest. 



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At the time of the first settlciiiciit along the Xovv England 
and New Jersey shores by the white man, that portion of the 
eonntry was occupied by the Alg()n([nin linguistic family divided, 
however, into many tribes or clans. The entire territory of 
Xew York and the territory immediately around the borders of 
Lake Erie, inculding a portion of N^orthern Ohio, was occupied 
by the Iroquois family. Both of these linguistic families had 
many sub-divisions of tribes, but all the tribes of the same family 
spoke substantially the same language. The encroachments of 
the white man from our Eastern shores westward gradually drove 
ihe Algonquin Indians to the west and they were thus com- 
pelled to seek new territory whereon to settle, and in (h)ing so 
they necessarily impinged Uj^on other tribes, particularly upon 
the Iroquois. This brought on wars which greatly disturbed 
the original conditions of the tribe and wrought great changes, 
both in their numbers and locations. These conflicts were fur- 
ther complicated by wars between the French on one side and 
the English upon the other, as these two nations were for a long 
period of time actively contending for dominion on this conti- 
nent. The result of all this was broken and disseminated tribes 
of botli the Algonquin and Iroquois families, some of which 
found lodgment in various ])ortions of Ohio. 

Our immediate -predecessors in the occupancy of Ohio were 
the Miamis, Shawnees, Delawares and Ottawas of the Algon- 
(juin linguistic family; and the Wyandots and Mingos of the Iro- 
([uois linguistic family. There were also in the eastern and 
northeastern part of the State a few of the Senecas and Tus- 
carawas, who were of the Iroquois family. Their occupancy, 
however, was for hunting })urposes and temporary in character, 
their pennanent homes being farther east in New York and 
northern Pennsylvania. Their tril)al relations were with the Six 
Xations of the Iroquois. In the early part of the century some 
of the Senecas broke away from their original tribal relations 
and settled near Sandusky within the territory claimed by the 
Wyandots. They were inconsiderable, both in numbei*s and in- 
fluence, and came into Ohio after the formation of the State, 
and cannot therefore be considered as ha^dng an original occu- 
pancy of the country. 



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The Mingos were but a small tribe, a branch of the Iroquois, 
which formerly occupied the eastern portion of the State near 
Steubenville, and later settled upon the banks of the Scioto, 
where the City of Columbus now stands. They had but three 
small villages; one in front of and south where the Ohio Peni- 
tentiary now stands; another was at the west end of the Harris- 
burg bridge, where the City Work House is now located, and 
the other was near the east end of what is called the Green Lawn 
Avenue bridge. Logan was their most noted chief and at one time 
possessed great influence, not only over his own, but all the other 
tribes northwest of the Ohio. 

The Delawares come from the region of the Delaware and 
Susquehanna rivers in Pennsylvania, and settled for a time along 
the Muskingum and later upon the Auglaize in northwestern 
Ohio, on territory claimed by the Miamis and Wyandots. Later 
still they moved from the Auglaize to the White River in In- 
diana, which is a branch of the Wabash. They were at one 
time, before they came to Ohio, conquered by the five nations 
of Iroquois and called women, and reduced to the grade of 
women; but after their advent in Ohio they showed themselves 
to be brave in war and skillful in the chase, and in part redeemed 
their reputation and standing with the other tribes. 

The Shawnees, after wandering over a wide extent of terri- 
tory, including the States of Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, 
from which country they were driven by the Creeks and Semi- 
noles and other Southern tribes, made their lodgment in Ohio 
along the lower Scioto, in what is now Pickaway and Ross 
counties, and sought the protection of the Miamis and Dela- 
wares. At this time Black Hoof was their principal chief, but 
later, at the battle of 'Tallen Timbers," in August, 1Y94, Blue 
Jacket was chief in authority of this tribe. TTiey were exceed- 
ingly restless and aggressive, and constantly annoyed the early 
settlers in Virginia and Kentucky, and it was against this tribe 
that the military expedition of Lord Dunmore, in 1YY4, was 
particularly directed. When he had reached the Scioto, about 
seven miles south from where Circleville now stands, the Indians 
sued for peace and the celebrated conference took place by 
which the Shawnees agreed not to again hunt or conduct maraud- 



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ing expeditions south of the Ohio. The Mingos did not attend 
that conference, and while Lord Dunmore's main army was 
centered in Pickaway county, he sent a detachment under Cap- 
tain Crawford to destroy the Mingo towns where Columbus now 
standi. Of this expedition the late Joseph Sullivant, in his most 
excellent address before the ])i()necrs of Franklin county in 1871, 
narrates that ho had often heard from Jonathan Alder, who had 




LYONS COLLECTION OF RKLTCS. 

been long a captive among the Indians, but who in after years 
lived upon the Darby in this county, and with whom Mr. Sulli- 
vant had a close personal acquaintance, that he (Alder) had 
heard from the Indians that "in the fall of 1774, when all the 
male Indians of the neighboring villages, except a few old men, 
had gone on their first fall hunt, one day about noon the village 
was surprised by the sudden appearance of a body of armed white 



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men, wlio immediately enmmeneed firing upon all whom they 
eonld see. Great consternation and panic ensued and the in- 
habitants tied in every direction. One of the Indian women 
seized her child of five or six years of age and rushed down the 
bardv of the river and across to the wooded island opposite, when 
she was shot dowji at the farther bank. The child was unhurt 
amid the shower of balls, and escaped into the thicket and hid 
in a huge hollow sycamore standing in the middle of the island, 
where it was found alive two days afterwards when the war- 
riors of the tribe returned, having been summoned back to the 
scene of disaster by runners sent for that purpose. This wooded 
and shady island was a favorite place for us boys when we went 
swimming and fishing, and I have no doubt but that the huge 
sycamore is well remembered by many besides myself.'' 

This seems to have virtually ended the Mingos as a separate 
tribe or as a tribe of influence. They were not of the tribes who 
were parties to the treaty of Greenville in 1795, although all 
the important tribes northwest of the Ohio and east of the Mis- 
sissippi were parties to that treaty. However, at that time there 
were some of the Mingos still living aloiig the headwaters of Mad 
River in what is now Champaign and Logan counties, which 
territory belonged to the Miamis, and the Mingos had no terri- 
torial right therein. 

* * * * •X- * * 
The Ottawas formerly occupied the region of the Ottawa 

river of Canada, which empties into the St. Lawrence at Mon- 
treal, and which still retains the name of that tribe. From this 
region they were driven westward to the northern portion of 
Michigan, afterwards to the" region of Green Bay, Wisconsin, 
still later being driven from one place to another by the Iro- 
quois; a fragment of the tribe at last settled in Ohio in the coun- 
try of the Maumee. They joined in the treaty of Greenville, 
August 8d, 1795. They had long been considered a cowardly 
tribe; yet they produced the great Pontiac, who was beyond 
question the greatest of Indian chiefs and warriors of which 
we have any accurate knowledge. 

* * ***** 
The Miamis occupied all the western portion of Ohio, all 



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of Tiuliana and a largo ]if>rtion of wliat is now the State of Illi- 
\\in^. This tribe had k)ng occupied that territory and were once 
the nidst numerous and |)o\v(M-ful of tlie tribes in tlie Nortliwest. 
'Ihcv had no tradition of evci' having lived in any other por- 
tion of the country, and so they must have occupied this terri- 
tory for many generations. Their jjrincipal villages were along 
ihe headwaters of the two Miamis of the Ohio, and the Miami 
of the Lake (now the Maume(^) and along the waters of the 
Wabash in Indiana as far south as the vicinity of Vincennes. 
At the time of the treaty of Greenville they had been greatly 
reduced in numbers and in power, bnt were the oldest occupants 
of the Ohio territory, 
* * * * * * -X- 

The Wyandots were a bran(di of the Hurons, and when first 
met with by the French explorers along the St. Lawrence, occu- 
pied the vast peninsnla embraced between Lake Ontario and 
Lake Erie on the east and south, and Lake Huron on the west. 

Early in the seventeenth century a fierce and unrelenting 
war broke ont between the Hurons and the Iroquois. The 
Hurons had been furnished with fire-arms by the French, and 
the Iroquois by the Hollanders, which inauguraated among the 
Indians a new instrument and a new mode of warfare. The re- 
sult was unexpectedly and overwhelmingly in favor of the Iro- 
quois; and the Hurons were driven from, the line of the St. Law- 
rence and the country of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie over to 
the eastern shores of Lake Huron and to the Manitoulin Islands 
in Georgian Bay. But the aggressions of the Iroquois did not 
cease there and the Hurons were ultimately driven further north 
and west to the region of northern Lake Michigan and western 
Lake Superior. They were afterwards collected and concen- 
trated largely about the Straits of Mackinac, and later still found 
tlieir way down Lake Huron and took possession of the country 
from Lake St. (Uair south along the Detroit river, across Lake 
l^rie to the mouth of the Sandusky river, thence up that river 
to the ridge of the State in Wyandot, Marion and Crawford 
counties, in which territory they had their principal villages. 

They extended their occupancy of the country south as far 
at least as the Shawnee settlement on the lower Scioto, They 



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hunted and trapped along all the streams between the Little 
Miami and the Mnskingum. They also expanded to the west of 
this general line along the southern shore of Lake Erie as far 
as the Maumee river; and to the east almost, if not quite, to the 
eastern boundary of the State, which last region had once been 
the home of the Eries, but they had before this time been ex- 
terminated by the Iroquois. Lake Erie obtained its name from 
that tribe and still retains the same, although the tribe has 
long been exterminated. 

The Miamis claimed the right of possession in the territory 
between the Scioto and the Miamis, and they were at one time 
in possession of and entitled to the same, but in time the Wy- 
andots seemed to have been accorded the right thereto. 

The main villages of the Wyandots were near the present 
City of Detroit and along the line of the Sandusky river, their 
principal settlement being in Wyandot county, Ohio, where 
Upper Sandusky now stands. 

The Wyandots were admitted to be the leading tribe among 
the Indians in the territory of the ISTorthwest. To them was 
entrusted the grand calumet which united all the tribes in that 
territory in a confederacy for mutual protection and gave them 
the right to assemble the tribes in council and to kindle the coun- 
cil fires. This confederation included in addition to the tribes 
before mentioned the Kickapoos and Potawatamies, who lived 
about Lake Michigan, and the Chippewas of the upper lake re- 
gion. Their entire military strength, however, was not to ex- 
ceed 3000 warriors at the time of the treaty of Greenville in 
1795, although their strength had been much greater at a former 
period. 

General Harrison, in his address before the Historical So- 
ciety of Cincinnati in 1839, speaking of the Wyandots, says: 

"Their bravery has never been questioned, although there 
was certainly a considerable difference between the several 
tribes in this respect. With all but the Wyandots flight in 
battle when meeting with unexpected resistance or obstacles 
brought with it no disgrace. It was considered a principle of 
tactics. With the Wyandots it was otherwise. Their youths 
were taught to consider anything that had the appearance of an 



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ncknowlcdgincnt of the superiority of aii enemy disgraceful. 
In the battle of the ]\Iianii llapids, of thirteen chiefs of that 
trilx' who were present only one surviv'ed, and he was badly 
\\oun(k'd.'" 

This battle, \vhi(di is generally known as the battle of "fallen 
tinibci's/' was far rcachinp- in its results favorable to the cou- 
(jucsts of the Northwest by the white man. It is here worthy 
of remark that at this battle two of the most remarkable men 
of their time first came in conflict, namely William Henry Har- 
rison, then a young officer, and Tecumseh, then a young warrior, 
'i'licsc men were destined to be in contact and conflict for more 
than twenty years, and until Tecumseh met his death at the bat- 
tle of the Thames, October r)th, ISl-S, where he was in com- 




MICHAEL Iv. SULLIVANT. 

mand of the Indian forces allied with the English under Proc- 
tor, and General Harrison was in connnand of the American 
forces. 

It is further relate(l of the Wyandots that when General 
AVayiie was in command of the Army of the Xorthwest in 1793, 
lie instructed ( 'a])tain Wells, wdio commanded a company of 
scouts and who had previously been long a captive with the 
Indians, to go to Sandusky and bring in a prisoner for the pur- 
i)Ose of obtaining information. Captain Wells re])lied that he 

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''could bring in a prisoner, but not from Sandusky, because 
there were none but Wyandots at Sandusky and they would 
not be taken alive." (Historical Society of Ohio, Vol. 1, page 
266.) 

The Chief Sachem of the Wyandots as far back as the treaty 
of the Muskingum (Marietta, June 9, 1789), was Tarhe (the 
Crane), who was even at that remote period the most influential 
chief of his tribe, and continued to be such until the time of his 
death, which was subsequent to the peace of 1814. He was the 
leading spirit at the treaty of Greenville and used his great influ- 
ence to secure the ratification of that treaty by the various tribes, 
and continued his efforts and influence in behalf of peace at 
every treaty and conference to which his tribe was a party, down 
to the conference with General Harrison at Franklinton, June 
21, 1813, and until his death. He never lost his influence, either 
with his own or other tribes with whom they were in confed- 
eration. He was a wise, just and honorable chief, and at all 
times sought to subserve the best and truest interests of both the 
Indian and the white race, and commanded the respect and confi- 
dence of both. 

Another chief of the Wyandots who had great wisdom and 
firmness, and so great influence with his tribe, was Sha-Tey- 
Ya-Ron-Yah (Leatherlips). So great was his influence with 
the Sandusky Wyandots it was deemed by the Prophet and 
other turbulent spirits that he should be gotten out of the way, 
and so they had him executed June 1st, 1810. The pretense 
was witchcraft; but the real cause was the stand he took with 
his tribe to prevent the war which Tecumseh and the Prophet 
were then endeavoring to bring about between the Indians and 
the British on one side, and the Americans upon the other. It 
was simply a political murder. The virtues of this honorable 
chief have been commemorated by a suitable monument erected 
by the Wyandot Club of Columbus in 1888, on the spot where 
he was executed. 
* * * * 4^ * * 

These northern tribes of which we have been making men- 
tion had long been at enmity and war with the tribes south of 
the Ohio, particularly with the Cherokees, Chickasaws and Ca- 



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tawbas, and many were the iierce conflicts whicli took place be- 
tween these warring people. In the traditions which the Miamis 
give of their own history, they state that they had been at war 
with the Cherokees and Chickasaws for so long a period of time 
that they had no account of any time when there had been peace 
between them. 

I refer to this particularly today as we are assembled on the 
banks of the Scioto, which was for centuries one of the important 
military highways over and along which the northern tribes 
traveled in their numerous war expeditions against the tribes 
south of the Ohio. The importance of this river as a highway 
for the Indians in former times can only be understood and ap- 
preciated by remembering its direction and its physical rela- 
tions to other streams and waters. If we draw a line directly 
from the mouth of the Scioto north to the mouth of the San- 
dusky river, it will practically parallel the Scioto as far north 
as the center of Marion county; thence it will lead over the 
divide or ridge of the State and follow the general line of the 
Sandusky River to its mouth, where it empties into the San- 
dusky Bay. Continuing the line further north across Lake 
Erie, it will lead directly to the mouth of the Detroit River, by 
which all the waters of the Great Northern Lakes are reached. 
From the mouth of the Detroit River there is a chain of islands 
in sight of one another which stretch entirely across Lake Erie 
to Sandusky Bay and the mouth of the Sandusky River, and 
this was the route of the Indians across Lake Erie in fair weather. 
These islands afforded lodging places in the case of sudden 
storms and bad weather, and so made it comparatively safe for 
the Indians to cross Lake Erie in their canoes in the summer 
season, which was the season when they went to war and on 
their marauding expeditions. So it will be seen that nature 
had provided a direct waterway from the ISTorthern Lakes to 
the Ohio River by way of the Sandusky and the Scioto, over 
which the operations of war and the avocations of the chase 
were carried on for centuries by the Indians, and probably at a 
still more remote period by other races of men who preceded 
them in the occupation of this portion of the country. 
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A.-^ illustrating- the fierce nature of the confliets between the 
liibes north of the Ohio and those south of it in times past, it 
is an inipoi-tant fact that no tribes lived along the banks of that 
ri\'er or ])ernianently occupied the contiguous territory. The 
Ohio, as it flowed through the wilderness, was and has always 
been considered one of the most beautiful rivers on the globe, 
and its banks presented every allurement to, and advantage of, 
permanent occupation. Yet, there was not on it from its 
source to its mouth, a distance of more than a thousand miles, 
a single wigwam or structure in the nature of a permanent abode. 
General William Henry Harrison, in his address before the His- 
torical Society of Ohio, says: 

"Of all this immense territory, the most beautiful portion 
was unoccupied. jSTumerous villages were to be found on the 
Scioto and the headwaters of the two Miamis of the Ohio; on 
the ]\Iiami of the Lake (the Maumee) and its southern tribu- 
taries and throughout the whole course of the Wabash, at least 
as low as the present town of Vincemies ; but the beautiful Ohio 
rolled its amber tide until it paid its tribute to the father of 
waters through an unbroken solitude. At and before that 
time and for a century after, its banks were without a town or 
single village or even a single cottage, the curling smoke of whose 
chimneys would give the promise of comfort and refreshment 
to a weary traveler." 

This was the result of the long and fierce struggle which was 
wae'ed between the Indians north of the Ohio and those south 
of it. Its banks were not safe for permanent occupation by any 
of the Indian tribes. Even the vast and fertile territory of 
Kentucky was not, so far as known or as tradition informs us, 
the permanent abode of any considerable number of red men. 
It was indeed a dark and bloody ground long before its occu- 
pancy by the white men. In that territory there were great 
numbers of buffalo and wild deer and other game which made 
it a most desirable hunting ground, and hither came the Cliero- 
kees and Chickasaws of the south, as also the tribes north of the 
Ohio, to hunt and to obtain salt, and to wage war with each 
other; but it was not the permanent abode of any considerable 
number of any of these tribes. It was rather a battle ground 



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and scat (»t' conflict l)et\vcen the nortliorn and soutliern tribes 

whicli liad liccn waged for a long period of time. 

* v:- * w ^^ * * 

The Sci(»to Tiiver was originally of great inii»ortance, not only 
to the Fndians, hnt to the early white settlers. The first sur- 
veyors and the first settlers came to this vicinity in canoes, the 
Scioto then being well suited for canoe navigation. 

Tn a memorial to the Sullivant family prepared hy the late 
.rosei)h Sullivant will he found (page 111) an interesting nar- 




THE SITE ON WHICH LUCA.S SULLIVANT'S FIRST STORE WAS LOCATED. 

ration of his father's exp(U'i(Mice on one of his eai'ly tri])s to this 
locaHty. He had instrnctcd the men who had preceded him in 
canoes to leave one for him at the mouth of what is now the 
Olentangy river. He came throngh the forest on foot, and 
found the canoe, which had ])een left according to his instruc- 
tion. It was towards evening when he pushed it into the Scioto 
and started u\) that stream for the niouth of ^fill Creek, where 



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liis pai'ty was in wait for him. He soon perceived that lie was 
bein£>' followed by Indians along the north hank of the river 
and as the times were turbulent he was apprehensive for his own 
safety. By the time he had propelled his canoe as far as the 
island in the bend of the river at the stone quarries it had be- 
come dark, and he went upon the island as if intending to 
camp for the night. He pretended to build a fire but so managed 
that it made only smoke. When it was sufficiently dark he 
took his compass and gun and quietly waded out from the is- 
land to the west bank of the river, and thus escaped his pursuers. 
■X- * * -x- * * * 

All the tribes in Ohio had practically the same government 
or tribal organization, although they may have differed in many 
details. In the social organization of the Wyandots there were 
four groups — the family, the gens, the phratry and the tribe. 
The family was the household. It consisted of the persons who 
occupied one lodge or wigwam. The gens were composed of 
consanguineal kindred of the female line. The woman is the 
•head of the family and "carries the gens," and each gens has 
the name of some animal. Among the Wyandots there were 
eleven gentes, namely: Deer, Bear, Striped Turtle, Black Tur- 
tle, Mud Turtle, Smooth Large Turtle, Hawk, Beaver, Wolf, 
Sea Snake and Porcupine. A tribe is a body of kindred, and 
to be a member of the tribe it was necessary to belong to some 
family or to be adopted into some a family. The white captives 
were often adopted into families and given the relationship of 
the family. The phratry pertained to medical and religious 
rites and observances. 

There was practically a complete separation of the military 
from the social government. The councils and chiefs in the 
social government were selected by a council of women from 
the male members of the gens. 

The Sachem of the tribe or tribal chief was chosen by the 
chiefs of the gentes. In their grand councils the heads of the 
households of the tribe and all the leading men of the tribe took 
part. These general councils were conducted with great cere- 
mony. The Sachem explained the object for which the council 
was assembled and then each person was at liberty to express 



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liis opinion as to what was proper or best to be done. If a ma- 
jority of the council agreed the Sachem did not speak, but simply 
announced the decision. In case there was an ecjual division of 
sentiment, the Sachem was expected to speak. It was consid- 
ered dishonorable for a man to reverse his opinion after he had 
once expressed it. 

The wife had her separate property, which consisted of every- 
thing in tlie lodge or wigwam, except the implements of war 
and the chase, which belonged to the men. 

Each gens had a right to the service of all its available male 
members in avenging wrongs and in times of war. They also 
had a right to their services as hunters in supplying game to 
the villages. In times of need or scarcity whatever game was 
brought to the camp or village was fairly divided among all 
present. The military council was composed of all the able- 
bodied men of the tribe. Each gens had a right to the seiwice 
of all the able-bodied women in the cultivation of the soil. It 
was considered beneath the dignity of the Indian hunter or 
warrior to labor in the fields or to perform manual labor outside 
of what pertained to war and the chase. The children assisted 
the women in the cultivation of the crops, which consisted mostly 
of corn, although they also cultivated beans and peas, and in 
some parts of Ohio at least they had a kind of potato which 
the captives among the Indians say, "when peeled and dipped 
in coon's fat or bear's fat, tasted like our own sweet potatoes." 
They also made considerable use of nuts and berries, partic- 
ularly of the walnut and hickory nut and black haw, all of 
which were found in almost every part of the state. The cran- 
berry was also found in certain places and much used. 

The Mingo Indians at this point cultivated the rich bottom 
land between Franklinton and the river, which was subject 
to annual overflows, so that it was constantly enriched and yielded 
most abundant returns for the labor bestowed upon it. 
* * * ' * * * * 

Their great annual occasion was the corn festival. For this 
festival the hunters supi)li('(l the game from the forests and 
the women the green corn and vegetables from the fields. On 
this occasion they not only feasted themselves with plenty, but 



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made otferinj^s and did liomage to the Great Spirit for liis bless- 
ings. At this festival each year the coiineil of women of the 
gens selected the names of the children born during the pre- 
vious year and the chiefs of the gens proclaimed these names at 
the festival. These names could not lie (dianged, but an addi- 
tional name might be acxpiired by some act of bravery which 
might reflect honor upon the person. 
-;;■ * -X- * * -X- -X- 

The crimes generally recognized and punished by the Ohio 
tril)es were murder, treason, theft, adultery and witchcraft. In 
case of nuirder it was the duty of the gentile chiefs of the of- 
euder's gens to examine the facts for themselves, and if they 
failed to settle the matter it was the duty of the nearest rela- 
tive to avenge the wrong. 

Theft was punished by twofold restitution. 

Treason consisted of revealing the secrets of the. medicine 
]n'eparations, as well as giving information or assistance to the 
enemy, and was punished by death. 

Witchcraft was also punishable by death, either hx stabbing, 
bui'ning or with the tomahawk. At late as June, IS 10, Thief 
Leatherlips (Shateyaronyah), an aged chief of the Wyandots, 
was executed under the charge of witchcraft in this country. He 
was disi)atche(l with a tomahawk. 

For the first offense of adultery in a woman her hair was 
cro]>ped; for re})eated offenses her left car was cut off. 

Outlawry was also recognized among most of the tribes and 
consisted of two grades. If convicted of the lowest grade and 
the man thereafter committed similar crimes, it was lawful for 
any person to kill him. In outlawry of the highest grade it was 
the duty of any member of the tribe who might meet the offender 
to kill him. 
* ^ * * * * * 

AVhen the Indians determined upon a war expedition they 
usually observed the war dance and then started for their ob- 
jective |)oint. They did not move in a comjjact body, but broke 
n]) into small parties, each of which would take a different way 
to a common point of assembly. This was necessary, as they 
had to subsist upon the game which they might be able to take 



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wliilc oil the way, ami it was ditiicult, if not impossible, to se- 
cure liiiiiic sntlicieiit to sustain a lari2,e nuuiber of warriors on 
auv (lue line of ti'avel. Tliev traveled li^lit and fast, and this 
maile rlieui dau^d'ous as eueiines. Tliev would sti'ike when 
not ex])eeted and disappear as su(hlenly and ipiiekly as thev had 
ap[)eared. In this wav thev were able to subsist and elude pur- 
suit. 




STAI'.LE WHERE GEN. HARRISON KEPT HIS HORSE, 1812 KJ, 
SINCE MADE INTO DWELLING HOUSE. 



Their eai)tives in war and in their forays were sometimes 
shot, sometimes burned, sometimes adopted into a family and 
converted into Indians. The white captives as a rule soon ac- 
(piired the woodcraft and habits of their captors. Some of them 
became inveterate and active foes of the white man. Simon 
(iirty may be mentioned as an exmaple of this class. He was 



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called the "White Indian." He was celebrated for his cunning 
and craftiness, and no Indian surjiassed him in these qualities. 
He is often and usually cited as an example of extreme cruelty, 
but it is said in truth that he saved many captives from death, 
and it is probable that injustice has been done to him by inac- 
curate and prejudiced writers. 

v»* TT vr w w w TV" 

It was in the summer season that the Indians congregated 
in their village. That was also the season when they went to 
war or on their forays against the white settlers. In the winter 
season the villages were practically deserted, as it was their 
custom to separate into small parties, usually that of the near 
relatives, or, as we would say, members of the household, in- 
cluding the old men, women and children. They would go into 
different localities and select a spot, usually along f. stream of 
water or by the side of a lake or spring, where in the autumn 
or early winter thev would erect a lodgment where the old 
men, women and children might sojourn through the winter. 
The hunters would then separate and go in different directions 
and select a place or camp from which to hunt aud trap, so as 
not to impinge upon each other, always keeping relation with 
the main camp or lodge, to which they supplied meat for sub- 
sistence. They would, of course, change these camps accord- 
ing to their pleasure or their necessities, but at the end of the 
season they would gather the results of their winter's hunt 
and proceed back to their villages. It was their custom dur- 
ing the hunting season to collect the fat of the beaver, the raccoon 
and the bear and to secure it in the paunches or entrails of large 
animals, which the women had prepared for that purpose; and 
this was transported or conveyed to their villages for future use. 

They also made sugar in the spring of the year when the 
sap began to ran, and this they also put into the entrails of 
animals for preservation and transportation to their summer vil- 
lages. This sugar they mixed with the fat of the bear and that of 
other animals aud cooked it with the green corn and such vege- 
tables as they had, and thus made what they considered a most 
savory food. 

They were often reduced to great distress for want of food, 



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and often died from hunger and exposure. They were not only 
improvident, but they had no means of securing large stores of 
provisions for future use, and never acquired the art of so doing. 
When they had plenty they would use with extravagance and 
improvidence; but they were capable of enduring great hunger 
and fatigue. It was common for the Indians to be days without 
food of any kind, but they seem never to have profited by such 
experiences. The time when they were most likely to be dis- 
tressed for want of food was in the winter, when a crust would 
be formed upon the snow, so that when in walking such a 
noise was made as to scare the game before them. It was almost 
impossible for them to take deer, buffalo, or other wild game 
under such circumstances. They were then required to depend 
upon finding bear or coon trees. These their quick and practiced 
eye would soon detect when they came across them, but they 
were not always easily found, and it was often days before they 
would come upon one of them. They often saved themselves 
from starvation by digging hickory nuts, walnuts and other 
nuts out from under the snow. 
******* 

The territory of Ohio furnished an ideal home for the In- 
dians. The climate was excellent, and the streams abounded 
with fish and the forests with game. The red deer was abun- 
dant and the buffalo and elk were found in considerable num- 
bers in certain portions of the state. These and other large ani- 
mals furnished food for the Indians, and their hides furnished 
covering for their lodges and glothing for their persons. The 
waters of the state at certain seasons of the year were alive with 
mynads of wild fowl, of which we can now have no conception 
as to numbers. These added greatly to the sustenance of the 
Indians. I^o portion of the country was more favorable for 
forest life. 

After the settlement at Franklinton it soon became a trad- 
ing point for the Indians particularly the Wyandots, and tb 
hunters of this tribe continued to maintain their hunting camps 
along the Scioto and other streams of Franklin county for sev- 
eral years after the war of 1812 was closed. I have often heard 
from my father, David Taylor, who came to this country in 1807, 



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that tlicy came to Inint in tliis county as late as 1820; and one 
linntcr in particular, with whom my father was well acquainted 
and who was known to the white people by the name of ''Billy 
Wyandot," maintained his camp every winter at the first ravine 
north of the IN'ational Koad on the west bank of Walnut Creek, 
where there was, and now is, a fine spring-. 
****** -x- 

On the 21st of June, 1813, there was a great council of the 
chiefs and ])rincipal men of the Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee 
and Seneca tribes, about fifty in number, held in Franklinton 
to meet General Harrison in a conference about the war then 
in progress. James B. Gardiner, who was then the editor and 
proprietor of a weekly paper published in Franklinton, called 
the Freeman's Chronicle, was present, and in the next issue of 
his paper, which was on the 25tli of June, 1813, he made a re- 
jKirt of this conference. We have in our possession a copy of that 
paper, and believing it to be the only one in existence, we (piote 
from it as follows: After some preliminary remarks of a gen- 
eral character. General Harrison said to the Indians: ''That in 
order to give the United States a guarantee of their good dis- 
jiositions the friendly tribes should either move with their fam- 
ilies into the settlements, or their warriors should accompany 
him in the ensuing campaign and fight for the Ignited States 
To this i)roj)osal the warriors present unanimously agreed, and 
observed that they had long been anxious for an opportunity 
to fight for the Americans." The editor adds: "We cannot 
recollect the precise remarks that were made bv the chiefs 
who spoke; but Tarhe (the Crane), who is the ])rinci])al chief 
of the WS'andots and the oldest Indian in the western wilds, ap 
peared to represent the whole assembly and professed in the 
name of the friendly tribes the most indissoluble attadiment, 
for the American government and a determination to adhere 
to the treaty of Greenville." 

"The General promised to let the several tribes know when 
lie would want their services and further cautioned them that all 
who went with him must conform to his mode of warfare; not 
to kill or injure old men, women, children nor prisoners. * * * 
The General then informed the chief of the agreement made 



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by Proctor to deliver liim to Tecumseh in case the British suc- 
ceeded in taking Fort Aloigs; and i)roniis(Hl them that if he 
should be successful he would deliver ]*roctor into their hands 
on condition — that tliey should do him no other liarm than to 
put a petticoat on him. 'For,' said he, 'none hut a coward or a 
squaw would kill a prisoner.' 'V\w council 1)roke up in the after- 
noon and the Indians dejiartcd next day for their respective 
towns." 

It will be remend)ered in this connection in the last days of 
April, 1813, General Harrison was concentrating his troops for 
battle with the English under General Proctor and the Indians 
under Tecumseh at Fort Meigs, at the rapids of the Maumee. 
The English and Indians undertook to surprise him and take 
the fort before the main body of the American troops had ar- 
rived. They laid siege to Fort Meigs with great determination, 
but were finally defeated and compelled to abandon the enter- 
prise. It was to encourage the Indians to valor at this siege 
that General Proctor made his promise to them to deliver Gen- 
eral Harrison into the hands of Tecumseh if he should be suc- 
cessful in reducing the fort. 
******* 

In a report made by General Harrison to the Secretary of 
War, March 22nd, 1814, he says: "The Wyandots, of San- 
dusky, have adhered to us throughout the war. Their chief, 
the Crane, is a venerable, intelligent and upright man." In the 
same report, speaking of Black-Hoof, AVolf and Lewis, all Shaw- 
nee chiefs, he says: "They are attached to us from principles 
as well as interest. — They are all honest men." 

Through the influence of Crane, Leatherlips and others, the 
Wyandots of Sandusky refused to take part in the war, but the 
Wyandots of Detroit were led away by the influences of their 
chiefs, Walk-in-the-AVater and Eoundhead, and other turbulent 
spirits, and furnished more than 100 warriors to Tecumseh and 
the English under Proctor, but were utterly defeated at the Bat- 
tle of the Thames in October, 1813, and their leader killed and 
their military power broken. 
******* 

It is not (piite ir)0 years since the first white man of which 



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we have knowledge passed this locality. In 1751 Christopher 
Gist, accompanied by George (^rcnightan and Andrew Montour, 
passed over the Indian trail from the forks of the Ohio, to the In- 
dian towns on the Miami. Gist was the agent of an English and 
Virginia Land company. On January I7th, 1751, he and his 
party were at the great swamp in what is now Licking county, 
known to us as the ''Pigeon Roost," or "Bloody Run Swamp," 
which is five miles northwest from the Licking Reservoir and one- 
half mile south of the line of the National Road. From thence 
they proceeded to the Miami towns, which were in the region of 
Xenia and Springfield. This trail led them over or very near 
to the site of Columbus. We have reason to believe that they 
crossed the Scioto at or near the mouth of the Olentangy. 
* * * * « -X- * 

The next white man that we know of who did certainly pass 
along the Scioto river and visit this vicinity, Avas James Smith, 
who was a captive among the Indians and who hunted and camped 
with them on the Darby somewhere in the neighborhood of Plain 
City as early as 1757. What is now called the Darby was then 
the Olentangy, and Smith with his Indian companions hunted 
and trapped along the Darby and the Scioto, both in the winter 
of 1757 and 1758. In his narrative we learn that at the end of 
the first winter's hunt they made a bark canoe and started down 
the Olentangy (now the Darby), but as the water was low they 
were required to wait for high water somewhere almost directly 
west from here, where the Chief Tecaughretanego, after having 
made his ablutions, prayed to the Great Spirit as follows: 
"Grant that on this voyage we may frequently kill bears as they 
may cross the Scioto and Sandusky. Grant that we may kill 
plenty of turkeys along the banks to stew with our fat bear meat. 
Grant that rain may come to raise the Olentangy about two or 
three feet that we may cross in safety down to Scioto without 
danger to our canoe being wrecked on the rocks; and now, O 
Great Being, thou knowest how matters stand; thou knowest I 
am a great lover of tobacco, and though I know not when I may 
get any more, I now make a present of the last I have unto thee 
as a free burnt offering; therefore, I expect thou wilt hear and 
grant these requests, and I thy servant will return thee thanks 



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and love thee for thy gifts." — James Smith's Captivity, page 96. 

In a few days the rains did come and raised the Olentangy so 
that they passed safely down to its eonfliience with the Scioto at 
the present town of Circleville, from which point they passed up 
the Scioto and over into the Sandusky and on to Lake Erie and 
Detroit, where their stock of furs, which they had taken during 
the winter, was disposed of to traders. The next year they 
hunted along the Scioto and Olentangy, and the following year 
he escaped back to his home in Virginia. He was the first man 
to describe the country and the character of the land and the 
forests along the Scioto. Speaking of the country along the 
Scioto from Circleville up to the carry in Marion county, he says : 
''From the mouth of Olentangy on the east side of Scioto up to 
carrying place there is a large body of first and second rate land 
and tolerably well watered. The timber is ash, sugar tree, wal- 
nut, locust, oak and beech." In so far as we. know or can dis- 
cover, this is the first description ever written of the country 
where Columbus now stands. Just when the Darby obtained its 
new name and lost its Indian name of Olentangy is not known, 
but it was as early as the year 1796, as we know by the early sur- 
veys along that stream. The new name was no doubt given to it 
by the early surveyors. 

On the 10th of May, 1803, the court convened in Frank- 
linton with John Dill, chief judge, and David Jamison and 
Joseph Foos, associate judges, who were attended by Lucas Sulli- 
vant, clerk of the court. They then proceeded to lay off Frank- 
lin Coimty into four Townships as required by an act of the Legis- 
lature of the State of Ohio. It was by that order that all of that 
part of Franklin county within the following limits was em- 
braced, to wit: "Beginning at the forks of Darby creek (now 
Georgesville) nmning thence south to the line between the coun- 
ties of Ross and Franklin ; thence east with said line till it inter- 
sects the Scioto river; thence up the same till it comes to a point 
one mile on a straight line above the mouth of Roaring Run 
(Hayden's Falls) ; and from thence to the point of beginning to 
constitute the township to be called Franklin township." This 
included the territory on which we are assembled today. 
* ^f * * * * * 



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In the year IS-'iS C^olonel James Ivilboiirne, then being a mem- 
ber of the Legishitiire of Oliio, liad an aet passed giving Indian 
names to a number of streams in Central Ohio and by that act 
substituted the name of Oh'ntangy for tiie then common name 
of Whetstone. The original Indian name t)f the ])resent Olen- 
tangv was Keenhong-She-Con, or Whetstone creek. (See 
American Pioneer, YoL I, p. 55.) 

One of the reasons stated in the act for changing tlie names 
^vas that some of tlieni were "devoid of mocU'sty." A stream in 
the eastern part of the county now generally called Big W^alnut 
was by the early white settlers called "Big Belly," and by this act 
the name was changed to Gahannah. The Indian name of that 
stream was W^hingy-Mahoni-Sepung or Big Lick creek. The 
Indian name of what is now called Alum creek was Seeklic- 
Sepung or Salt Lick creek. Tbe term "Sepung" Avas always 
added to the name proper of a running stream and means running 
water, and was api)lied to all running streams. 
******* 
Immediately after the peace of ISl-t, the settlers began to 
arrive in Franklin county and Central Ohio in considerable num- 
bers. The Indians continued to trade at Franklinton and Co- 
lumbus and to maintain their hunting camps along the various 
streams of the county, being at peace with the white settlers. 
Al)out the year 1820 game had become scarce and the Indians 
ceased to hunt so far south as Franklin county. In 1830 the 
Congress and Senate of the Fnited States adopted a policy for the 
removal of the Indians to the west of the Mississippi river and 
passed a law entitled: "An act to provide for an exchange of 
lands with the Indians residing within any of the states or terri- 
tories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi." 

This was approved by the President of the United States May 
28th, 1830, and pursuant to its general provisions all the Indian 
tribes were remoA'ed from Ohio to the west of the Mississippi 
within the next few years, and the State of Ohio after centuries 
of occupancy by the red race ceased forever to be the home of the 
Indian. 



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AMUSEMENT FEATUKES. 

As the (lay advanced, the crowd upon the grounds increased. 
The demand for transportation from the city to the grounds was 
exceptional. The street railway company put forth its utmost 
endeavors, but was unable to carry all the people who desired to 
participate in the exercises. Carriages and conveyances of all 
kinds were called into service, but many were still unaccommo- 
dated and, weary of waiting, went home or turned their atten- 
tion to other matters. As it was, fully 10,000 people were upon 
the grounds, enjoying the aquatic and hippodrome sports which 
were repeated with some variations and, on the whole, in much 
better form than on the first day. 

The fii-st event on the lake was walking the greased pole. A 
pole thirty feet long extended from the high bank, about fifteen 
feet from the water. At the end hung a crate containing a 
hundred and seventy-five pound pig. Six men essayed to walk 
the slippery pole and touch the lever which let the pig into the 
water; but their efforts only resulted in a plunge into the lake. 
AVill Coughlin, .329 West ToAvn street, was the lucky man, free- 
ing the pig and diving for him in the water. He won the pig and 
a box of cigars, given by F. Smith. 

Kichard Owens gave an exhibition of fancy swimming. His 
fine diving and difficult feats in the water elicited great applause. 
His work was the best feature of the aquatic sports. The 50-yard 
Svvimming on the back was won by Charles Shields, 171 West 
Long, with his brother Will a good second. The prize was a gilt 
clock by Harrington & Co. There were about ten entries for 
this event and it was hotly contested throughout. 

The long dive was won by Charles Shields, the winer of the 
back swim. He made a wonderful dive, swimming under water 
half way across the lake, about thirty yards. The tub race was 
won by David O'Rourke, 161 West Capital. A number of the 
participants capsized, to the great amusement of the crowd. 

The last event of the water sports was the watermelon grab. 
The melons were thrown into the lake and a race made for them. 
Will Shields and George Boyer secured the melons. 

Samuel Droch, of 112 East Rich street, one of the boys who 
was swimming around the lake met with a severe accident. He 



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stepped on a piece of broken bottle, which liad been thrown in 
tlie lake. His foot was so badly cut up that he had to be removed 
to his home in the ambulance. 

An accident which might have been serious occurred at the 
track durine; the Roman chariot race. One of four horses driven 
by ''CJomanche Charley" Brennan stumbled and partly falling, 
was dragged some distance. The others, being turned somewhat 
from their course, dashed on until they collided with a pole on 
the edge of the track. One of the horses Avas severely cut and 
the driver was hurled violently forward, sustaining a bad wound 
at the knee. 

The historical tableaux were repeated and were witnessed by 
fully 5000 people and to much better advantage, as the stage had 
been moved to the mound where the speaking had taken place. 
Among those who participated in the tableaux was Miss Carol 
Gillespie, a great-granddaughter of David and Rachel Deardurff, 
who came to Franklin in 1798. Miss Gillespie was attired in the 
identical costume worn by her great-grandmother a century ago. 
The dress, cap, kerchief and breastpin are all heirlooms in the 
family. Miss Gillespie also impersonated an Indian girl in a 
subsequent tableau. Judge Samuel J. Swartz and Mr. John J. 
Chester took part in the tableaux also. Mr. Chester was one of 
the jolly corn buskers and was lucky enough to find the red ear, 
which entitled him to a kiss from the prettiest girl. He was 
equal to the occasion. 

Little Harvey Wygat, aged 13 months, whose home is on 
Chapel street, filled the role of the infant child which is stolen by 
Indians, and Harry Coit, aged nine years, of 1063 Pennsylvania 
avenue, was the other juvenile participant. 

The fireworks display, the last of the centennial, was also the 
best. The grounds were well lighted by electricity and the peo- 
ple, even after the close of the entertainment, lingered to enjoy 
the scene. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE THIRD (PIONEERS') DAY — OFFICIAL PROGRAM. 



10 a. m. — Platform exercises at centennial grounds, Colonel 
(_T. S. Innis, chairman. jMnsic, mass cliorus, "Buckeye Pio- 
neers," composed for this occasion, words by O. C. Hooper; music 
by Mrs. Ella May Smith; introduction of chairman, Hon. D. J. 
Clahane; addresses, Judge John M. Pugli, Hon. B. F. Martin 
and others; music, mass chorus, Keller's American Hymn; ad- 
dress, Hon. John J. Lentz, member of congress; music, mass 
chorus; doxology; mass chorus. 

3 p. m. — -Acjuatie sports and scientific swimming; Roman 
chariot races; bicycle races; trick elephant; aerial acts. 

4 p. m. — Sham battle between Indians and settlers represent- 
ing an attack on a frontier fort. 

8 p. m. — Historic tableaux; aerial acts; balancing and flying 
trapeze acts. 



The heat on the third day of the centennial was intense. More 
rlian any earthly personage. Old Sol made himself felt, and the 
perspiring early comers to the gTounds immediately sought the 
shade. But the crush of people continued as before and the 
transportation facilities, though improved somewhat as a result 
of the preceding day's experience, were again put to a severe test. 
It was Pioneers' day and a large number of the older residents 
were upon the grounds and, during the platform exercises, occu- 
pied favored positions near the speakers. 

There were 10,000 people on the grounds at 10 o'clock when 
Judge Gilbert H. Stewart, acting as chairman instead of Colonel 
G. S. Innis, who was ill, called the meeting to order. The Four- 
teenth regiment band played an inspiring air and then the mass 



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chorus of men and women singers, accompanied by the band, 
rendered Keller's "American Hymn," a change having been made 
in the program in order that the special song of the day might be 
heard by the late comers. The chorus, which was led by Pro- 
fessor W. H, Lott, sang with magnificent effect. Following is a 
list of the singers composing the chorus : 

First Tenor — D. B. Jones, M. Friley, G. Jennings, J. C. Stim- 
mel, T. Boyles, W. S. Potter, J. D. Lott, Chris Walz, E. S. 
Howard, D. E. Owens, W. Chenoweth, H. Herzog, W. Howard, 
Charles Schofield, John Farmer, H. Lippert. 

Second Tenor — F. Overdeir, H. Beau, L. Godman, J. P. 
Bowles, H. E. Fuller, J. H. Fleming, C. E. Warren, W. G. 
Sackett, H. G. Knoderer, F. Bryan, F. Lauterbach, H. Patterson, 
T. B. Galloway, W. H. Hain, A. P. Hillery, Doc Havens, F. 
Whittaker. 

Soprano — Edith Seymour, Ida Eckart, Emelie Renz, Mamie 
G. Beynon, Clara Miller, Belle Sadler, Mrs. W. A. Brush, Miss 
Emma Hamill, Caddie Shirey, Mrs. Frank Smith, Blanche John- 
son, Lulu P. Henry, Mrs. Harry ISTeff, Miss Sue Grinson, Mrs. H. 
C. Rowland, Miss Chrissie Zollinger, lona Frankenberg, Anna 
Arnold, Zelma Fulkerson, Dell Kyner, Emma Bryler, Alice 
Trimble, Martha McElroy, Jessie Crane and Effie Beach. 

Alto — Rica Hyneman, Ernestine Ivarger, Edith Ryan, lillie 
Wheeler, Glade Williamson, Arlin Williamson, M. Roberta 
Wheeler, May Henry, Margaret Darby, Ella Lisetor, Alice Over- 
dier, Anna M. Grimm, Edith Bach, Lillian Immel, Anne G. 
Sherman, Lilly M. Hickey, Clara S. Pirsig, Finita E. Ritter, 

Bass— Benjamin Reynolds, Carleton Wright, John Crane, C. 
Soman, A. L. Frey, J. H. McDerment, E. A. Schroth, W. L. Van 
Sickle, R. Gilbert Warner, George Brent, Will Brent, J. H. Ran- 
som, John R. Beynon, C. Graumann. 

HON. B. F. MARTIN'S SPEECH. 

Judge John M. Pugh, who was to have been the first speak- 
er was, owing to illness, unable to be present, and so the first 
regular speaker of the day was Hon, B. F. Martin who, on being 
introduced by Chairman D. J. Clahane, said that ho had no pre- 
pared address to deliver on this occasion. During the previous 



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days of this celebration, said J\lr. Martin, you have heard many 
eloquent, truthful and well-prepared addresses upon the early 
and first settlement of the village of Franklinton and its sur- 
roundings, notably the address of our fellow-citizen, General 
John Beatty, replete with historic facts, beautiful in thought and 
forcible in expression, and so exhaustive of the subject that little 
can be said by the impromptu speaker which has not already been 
said. In fact, the important events connected with the early set- 
tlement of this (Franklin) county have been published and re- 
published in book form entitled histories, and have been pro- 
claimed from many platforms by many public speakers. The 
historic event which we now here celebrate is the 100th anni- 
versary of the first settlement of Franklinton, which in some re- 
spects limits and localizes the boundaries of our ambition; and 
let me say right here, that to Mr. Dennis Clahane and his able 
co-workers we are indebted for the inauguration and completion 
of this successful celebration, which brings the present genera- 
tion in thought and touch with the events and the persons who in- 
habited this locality one hundred years ago. The honored name 
and revered memory of Lucas Sullivant, the founder of the set- 
tlement and town of Franklinton, will be cherished so long as 
people shall inhabit this region of country, and the art preserva- 
tive exists; and linked with his noble efforts and of equal import- 
ance to the establishment of a town, and to the civilization and 
happiness of those who might thereafter inhabit it, the historian 
gives us the familiar names of the Dixons, Skidmores, Brickells, 
Armstrongs, Domigans, Deardurffs, McElvains, Foos, Sells, 
Overdiers and others and later on of the Swans, Parsons, Stewarts, 
"Brothertons and many others as early settlers and co-laborers of 
the new town. Among these pioneers, all occupations and all 
professions were worthily represented, and so the foundations 
of Franklinton and its immediate "^acinity were laid broad and 
deep, and so well equipped did the little town start on its mis- 
sion that today we behold it an important and beautiful part of 
our great and growing city of Columbus. 

But what now of its founder and early settlers? Amid all the 
privations incident to the settlement of a new country they faith- 
fullv and heroicallv discharged all the duties of citizenship ac- 



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coi'diiii;- to tlio best lights before tlieiii, and all have passed to the 
great hejoiid — leaving nearbv their entoni])ed dust; and a reeord 
fidl of nol)le thoughts and good deeds for our instruction and 
imitation. 

Pioneers of Franklin countv, I am glad to meet you on this 
occasion, and glad to look upon the faces of these gray-haired 
men and women. Many of you are descendants, near and re- 
mote, of the early settlers of Franklinton and its vicinity, whose 
noble efforts to found a town and to s])read civilization and civil 
government over and about it were crowned with su(di marked 
success that we may well rejoice in the attained result. 

Finally, be it ours, and that of our children, and our (diildren's 
children, with the increased facilities which may from time to 
time ajDpear, to take up the battle of life and industriously to 
labor for the promotion of knowledge — for a higher type of 
civilization and for the increase of happiness to all of human 
kind. 

THE CENTENNIAL SONG. 
At the conclusion of Mr. Martin's remarks, the mass chorus 
sang the song, "The Buckeye Pioneers," which was written espe- 
cially for the occasion, the words by Mr. Osnian (\ Hooper and 
the music by Mrs. Ella May Smith. The words of the song 
follow : 

THE BUCKEYE PIONEERS. 

Fair Buckeye land, we sing your praise 

And bare our heads to them 
Who lived and wrought in other days, 

And framed your diadem. 
Their handiwork none can forget; 

The jewels of the years 
AVould in your crown be still unset 

But for the pioneers. 

Chorus — 

Then a song for the pioneers, 

The praise of a hundred years, 

For the women true and the brave men who 

Were the pioneers. 



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They blazed their way througli forests deep 

A hundred years ago, 
And in the trusty rifle's keep 

They braved a wily foe. 
They felled the nionarchs of the wood, 

They tilled the fertile plain. 
Kind heaven saw and called it good 

And made earth laugh with grain. 

Chorus — 

With latchstring out, the cabin door 

Gave greeting unto friend. 
To live was good, but it was more 

To succor or defend. 
And here in every breast there beat 

A heart to country true. 
Which clad with strength the hurrying feet 

When this old Hag was new. 

Chorus — 

Undaunted they by any foe 

If red in coat or face, 
Uncon([uered still their spirits grow 

And give us of their grace, 
And here where toiled the pioneers 

There rises now elate 
The glory of a hundred yeai*s. 

The beauteous Buckeye state. 

Chorus — 

The song was admirably rendered, and was nnich enjoyed by 
the pioneers in whose honor it was written and none the less by 
the great throng of a younger generation, 

REMARKS BY REV. J. 11. CREIGHTO^t 

Rev, J. 11. Creighton, of Lithopolis, was then introduced. 
Said he: 

My father came from the south of Ireland when he was 19 
years old. He could neither read nor write, but fell in company 
with an Irish weaver, one of Wesley's men, and sat by his loom 
during one winter Avhere he learned reading, writing, arithmetic 
and surveving. 



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This early iguoraiice was no fault of his, for, where he came 
from the inhabitants mostly live in mud cabins, smoke poor to^ 
bacco, drink bad whisky, sleep with their dog's and swear at the 
government. Neither was it any want of ability, for when he 
came to hai)py America (as he often called it) he became one of 
the best teachers and scholars in the country. He came to 
Franklinton about the same time that Lucas Siillivant came, and 
became one of Snllivant's surveyors. I cannot give the dates, 
but it was about a century ago. My father had the first store in 
Franklinton. Ilis (diief customers were Indians. They were 
gentlemen in blankets, supported by the government without 
work — had an aversion to labor because, as they said, it was a 
disgrace to work (women excepted). To this day they hold to this, 
and to this day the government supports them, or most of them. 
This is no reflection on the Indian as a race, for any race living 
without work w^ill be a race of vagabonds. I heard my father 
say that he used to hunt his cow in the woods where High street 
is now. It was a dense forest of beech trees, and he could walk 
from one end of High street to the other on beech roots. 

But as this is Pioneers' day I will speak of three pioneers — three 
mighty men — men that I knew personally. James Gilruth lived 
in Franklinton while the soldiers were encamped here, and he was 
himself a soldier. He was a giant, with the size and strength of 
two or three common men. Several things have been said about 
his wonderful feats. Some of these are exaggerated, but those 
I relate are true. I can only mention a few. While the soldiers 
w^ere in line in or near Franklinton a large athletic man walked 
along the line holding a five-dollar bill by one end offering to bet 
it against any man for a wrestle or a foot race, the commander 
saying at the same time, "Any man accepting this banter may 
step two paces in front." James Gilruth stepped forward. The 
soldiers were soon formed in a hollow square to see the wrestlers. 
In half a minute Gilruth downed his antagonist and walked 
away amid the cheers of his fellows-soldiers. Long years after this 
while Gilruth was traveling a circuit (Pickerington, T think,) he 
heard of this man, and went to see him. After talking over old 
times, Gilruth took out a five-dollar bill and said he had often 
wanted to pay that back, but the man positively refused it. 



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111 those carlv days the camp meetings were sometimes greatly 
disturbed and even ])roken up by tlie rowdies. But when Gih'utli 
was about no eonstables were needed. His plan was to go out in 
the night among the ruffians and find out the ringleader, then 
put one of his tremendous arms around him and bring him into 
eamp. T was present onee when a rowdy was brought in. There 
was an old stump partly decayed which somewhat filled up the 
passage way where the men were coming. This stumii was torn 
away with a crash as they passed — the seats and everything in the 
way had to give way. It was like a big river steamer towing a 
flatboat. The man was almost out of breath, but had strength 
enough to say: "Who are you? You must be Gilruth that I 
have heard of." This took place almost in the dark, for in those 
days we used tallow candles. Gilruth went to a mill for a barrel 
of flour. The miller asked him if he had any way to take it. 
"I will carry it," said he. Said the miller, "If you do, I will give 
it to you." "Very well, then," said Gilruth, "I will take two at 
that rate." Said the miller, "I would rather offer you two than 
one if you will carry them home." So he took one under each 
arm and walked home. I suppose, however, that afterwards he 
paid for the flour. 

Some of the citizens here remember the old court house, not 
like the stately edifice now across the river, but a pretty tall build- 
ing for the times. Gilruth on several occasions threw a five- 
pound axe clear over the steeple. I could recite several other 
feats of his wonderful power. I have no doubt but he could 
enfold Fitzsimmons with one of his arms and silence him without 
much blood. It must not be inferred from what T have said that 
Gilruth was a bully or fond of strife. He was as kind and gentle 
as St. John, but in those days some of our pioneer preachers had 
to suspend Scripture reasons and arguments long enough to use a 
little argmmentum baculinum — not lex talionis, but in self-de- 
fense and of necessity. Gilruth was a man of great personal 
dignity, udng but few words, but well chosen. 

Another mightv pioneer that I knew was James Freeman. 
Tie was a great fighter in his young days and canned the scars of 
conflict on his forehead even to old age. But heainng the Gospel 
at a camp meeting, the lion was turned into a lamb. Wlien I 



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knew liiiu about fifty years ago lie lived in a little town on the 
Ohio river called Rome. By common consent he kept order in 
and about the church. After a while they called him "the pope." 
His mode of keeping order was like that of Gilruth. When a 
disorderly man was to be (]uieted, Freeman would put his arms 
around him and make for the door. I remember once, as I was 
preaching in Rome, "the pope" arose to his feet and stretching 
his long and powerful arm toward some young men said, "Young 
men, now I'll have one of you on my hip in a few minutes if you 
are not immediately quiet." Soon after his conversion he went 
up into the hill country of Brush creek to attend a religious pro- 
tracted meeting. When he went into the church it so happened 
that he took his seat by a drunken rowdy who was disturbing the 
meeting by speaking aloud and annoying the preacher. Free- 
man told him to be still, and listen to the speaker, but this only 
made the ruffian worse. "I^ow," says Freeman, "I am a stranger 
here, but if you don't dry up I'll have you on my hip in a minute." 
The man said, "Who are you?" and kept on talking audibly, 
whereupon Freeman threw his arm around him and made for the 
door, tearing through the congregation, upsetting seats amid 
screaming women and general confusion, landing the fellow out- 
side with a few digs in the ribs to settle him. Most of the people, 
and also the preacher, thought they were both drunk, but a man 
from Rome soon told who he was and that was a way he had of 
keeping order. I remember my first round on that circuit. 
When I went to Rome I called on Freeman, who met me cordi- 
ally. He then called to his wife, "Eliza, come here. Come and 
see our new preacher." As he eyed me from head to foot, he said 
to his wife, "Well, he is rather a poor pattern to look at, but we 
will wait to see how he can preach. May be he is a singed cat." 

Another pioneer that I knew who traveled in his young days in 
some of the roughest parts of Ohio, was Charles Fergison. Fie 
was a very eloquent man and drew large crowds to hear him. In 
stature and strength he was only second to Gilruth. On a certain 
occasion while preaching to a mountain congregation a drunken 
man came swaggering in up towards the speaker, talking aloud as 
he came. Looking at Furgison, he said, "You are the great 
Furgison! You are the feller that they say can raise the dead!" 



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"Xo," says Furgisoii, "I can't raise the dead, but I can cast out 
devils." Suiting his action to his words he seized the fellow by 
the collar and put him out of the house. Then he returned and 
finished his sermon. 

These men liavc all ])ass('d away, but they did lay the founda- 
tion for a great church and a better state of society. 

Before closing I wish to briefly mention another kind of 
pioneer with M'hom I was for some time associated — W. S. Sulli- 
vant — well known and greatly honored in all this country. Tie 
was a true scientist and was a cotemporary with many of the 
greatest botanists of this country. He was by far the greatest 
bryologist in this country. He pursued the subject con amore. 
He spared neither time nor money to advance the science of 
botany, especially in the department of ferns and mosses. 1 
can only mention a single incident. He told me that if I would 
go to a certain little pond in the Pickaway plains I would find 
one of the most beautiful plants on this continent. (It was then 
thought that the ]^elumbium luteum was found nowhere else in 
Ohio.') He asked me to go and get a specimen for myself and 
one for him. T did so, taking a man with me and making a 
temporary bridge, where I obtained this beautiful plant. The 
leaf of the one T sent to Mr. Sullivant was nearly four feet in 
<liameter and the flower was six or seven inches in diameter. 

Since then the ]N^elumbium has been found in several places, 
hut I have never seen such fine specimens. There is but one 
species. 

Prof. Wm. Yonmans' new book, "Pioneers of Science in 
America," published last year gives a brief but good account of 
"\Vm. Sullivant, with best likeness I have ever seen of him 

HOK JOTTN J. LENTZ'S ADDRESS. 

At this jioint. Congressman .John J. Lentz was introduced and 
delivered the following address: 

Ladies and Gentlemen — This occasion and this presence 
])iompts me to congratulate the citizens of Columbus. Papidly 
and in close succession we witness evidences of cosmopolitan 
growth. With certainty and confidence, we take our place 
fmong the substantial and permanent cities of a great continent. 



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When Ave review the magnificent cities of the Old World, and 
estimate the promises and possibilities for the ISTew World; when 
we stand in admiration of the art and arehitectnre, the music and 
song, the learning and culture of Europe; and when we turn our 
telescope upon the starlit night of futurit}^, what emotions of 
liopo and ambition fill our souls with desire and determination to 
make of this city one of the hapjuest and one of the purest 
homes for men and women upon the face of the earth. Our 
growtli and progress, past and present, are such as inspire us all 
Avith the faith that ours shall also be one of the great cities of 
ihe world. And this thought is the most pleasing to me in the 
feeling that the lot lines and the Myalls of my residence do not 
make the boundaries of my home. 1 think every good citizen 
should feel that this entire city is his home, and that each and 
eA^ery man, Avoman and child within its corporate limits should be 
looked upon as more than a neighbor, and that CA^ery act, Avhether 
legislatiA^e or social, should be measured and estimated acn^ording 
to its influence and effect upon the human product of such a 
city. 

Shops, factories, mills and furnaces, towering buildincs and 
radiating railAvays, all attest the commercial activitA' of this ereat- 
capital city — but after all is said and done the real solemn, eavn- 
rst purpose of a great and good citv must be to produce men and 
women so fashioned in their intellectual and moral attainments 
■nd aspirations that Deity may some day look down upon them 
and saA't "These are my children fashioned after my oaatp 
"mage." 

Wp, are often reminded of that magnificent city upon the 
T'Vr, and of the marA^elous influence of her heroic men, who 
marohed forth from that city of the seA^en hills and pstablishefl 
tl'.fouffhout Europe their laAvs, their custt-nif^ and their civiliza- 
tion amid the clash and clatter of shield and spear. "But the 
great things of the world are not all in the past. Identified Avith 
the lirst century of our city are men of distinguished statesman 
ship and charity, men of literary, commercial and social die;nity. 
'nen AA'hose names Avill be Avritten in bold characters upon the 
record paces of Columbus. Tt is a common boast that in Avealth 
per capita, Ave are the first or second city of the land; why no^- 



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have a higher pride and let our boast be that we are to becomf 
the foremost city in the learning and culture of our men and 
women; for it is their high character that makes the true wealth 
of a city; that makes the dignity and grandeur of a nation; that 
makes the test and criterion of a civilization. 

We owe it to ourselves and our ancestors to increase the talents 
that are given us; we are in the center of a great state, a common- 
wealth sufficient in size, opportunity and resources to become an 
empire; seventeen years ago we had a population of 50,000, to- 
day 140,000, and who can safely wager that a decade later we 
shall not be a handsome city, throbbing with the hopes and fears 
of 200,000 souls; who shall say that at our uext centennial we 
shall not have a million and more? 

It is no longer necessary that a city should lie upon the border 
of the sea. We have seen Berlin, in less than a century, grow 
from an obscure town, and become an important railway center, 
one of the controlling seats of commerce, and the greatest manu- 
facturing city upon the continent of Europe, in population the 
third city of Europe, and in learning and art the foremost city 
of the nineteenth century, the Athens of the modem world, 
teaching the teachers and finishing the education of the edu- 
cators of every civilized government upon the face of the earth. 

We shall not become the largest city on the continent, Init we 
could become the best city in the world — just as Switzerland 
not the strongest government^ and yet is the most just and 
equitable government on the face of the earth. In our first cen- 
tury we have subdued nature, removing the forests, guiding the 
rivers, paving the streets and connecting ourselves with the whole 
world by steam and electricity; and through our schools, colleges 
and universities, we have opened wide our doors and windows 
to receive every impulse and vibration of science and scholarship 
even from the uttermost parts of the earth. 

In the next century let us hear a little oftener of the rights of 
man and not quite so much about the rights of property. 

In the next century let us develop t^"- full interpretation and 
meaning of those words: ''Life, liberty an(l the pursuit of 
l)ap]uness," and if we find that the greed of the /'^w for the prop- 
erty of tlic many shall destroy or endanger life^ liberty and the 



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pursuit of happiness — then let us legislate so that life, liberty and 
the pursuit of happiness shall be and remain the inheritance of 
the sons and daughters of the future generations of Columbus. 

Let us say with Lincoln and Jefferson that when the conflict 
comes between the man and the dollar, we shall espouse the cause 
of the man. 

May our city in 1997 be known as the capital of a great com- 
monwealth where "opportunity" shall be the watchword and the 
inheritance of every boy and girl — where "monopoly" shall be 
known no more except as a public right, such as is exercised by 
the national government in our present mail system, and by our 
city government in our water-works. 

May our city in 1997 be tlie hope of a million good citizens, 
where no man shall be estimated for what he owns — but where 
every man shall rank merely for what he is — wdiere the owner of 
a million without character and heart and brain shall be sub- 
ordinated, and in the judgment and estimation of all men shall 
be inferior to the intelligent and manly man, who still eats his 
noon-day meal from a tin bucket or a brown box. Where the 
dollar shall be dethroned and the doctrine of the divine right of 
a pure heart and an intelligent head shall be exalteo and pro- 
claimed as the consummation of a higher civilization. 

I am not a theorist, for my hope rests upon the foundation of 
holy writ. There it was learned that "the kingdom of heaven 
is with you," and which I interpret to mean that the opportunity 
and capacity for a veritable heaven on earth is within us. 

Those who died twenty-one years ago having visited the Phila- 
delphia Centennial of the Declaration of Independence of 
America knew nothing of the telephone by which we may speak 
to, and recognize the voice of a friend or brother, although a 
thousand miles away. At the Philadelphia centennial they knew 
nothing of electric railways which have said to the horse, "Come 
unto me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 
They knew nothing of electric light — which now almost turns 
night into day. 

If those who have been in the grave for twenty-one years could 
awaken today and tonight and see what progress has been made 
in the sciences and behold the city of Columbus under the 



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splendor and brilliancy of electricity, tliey would imagine they 
were upon the golden streets of the eternal city, and won Id pro- 
claim to us that "the kingdom of heaven is within you." 

Seeing all this progress in science and machinery, all this 
electricity and enginery of God drawn down from heaven for the 
use of men on earth, will anyone dare say there are no possible 
inventions and discoveries in the laws and the economic theories 
of men such as will remove some of the thorns from the path of 
labor, and some of the insolence and intolerance from the hearts 
of the 25,000 men who now own one-half of all the property of 
(he United States'^ 

I do not propose that labor shall take from capital that which 
capital has already taken from labor, but I do suggest the un- 
qualified decency and propriety of labor insisting upon it that all 
future legislation shall be so framed as to save to labor a mucn 
larger percentage of the product of their sweat and their toil 
hereafter. 

Ships are launched complete, and baptized with champagne; 
churches, cathedrals, monuments and public buildings are dedi- 
cated with pomp and ceremony, but cities frequently have their 
origin shrouded in the mists and shady perspectives of the past. 
I'he birth of a city, like that of a child, may mean much or noth- 
ing. It may be a promise of glory, or a prospect of shame. It 
may mean the triumph of education and culture, or the reign of 
lust, greed, avarice and intolerance. Cities like the winds come 
— no man knoweth whence — and go — no man knoweth whither. 

Athens and Rome remain in name and tradition only. All 
that was great in either of these magnificent cities lies buried 
deep with the bones and the brains and the hearts of the men and 
the women who created them. 

May some divinity shape the destiny of Columbus, so that her 
future may be worthy of her proud name. 

The fates were generous in writing the word Columbus at the 
confluence of the Olentangy and Scioto; it was no new word, no 
untried symbol. It was a word pregnant with suggestions and 
inspirations. Before the word Columbus came into the vocabu- 
lary of the world, men taught and preached that the earth was 
flat, and that the sun traveled around it each day. Before the 



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lexicons contained the word Coliimbns, men believed, and by 
inquisition and torture forced their brothers to proclaim that 
witches rode on every breeze, and ghosts haunted every hollow. 
Before the word Columbus was born, the old word "opportunity" 
had died and disappeared from the face of the earth, and the 
hundreds of millions in China, Japan and India were petrified 
in the swamps of superstition. Before the word Columbus en- 
circled the globe, the monstrous doctrine of the divine right of 
kings had hypnotized and brutalized all Eiu^ope. Before the 
word Columbus had become the synoiiym of the word "For- 
ward," that trinity of all progress, hope, ambition and courage, 
had been paralyzed for centuries and centuries. 

May the spirit of Columbus and the spirit of Lucas Sullivant 
inspire us all with hope, ambition and courage to venture and 
search until we have found a code of laws and built a city of 
which we may say — "I am a citizen of Columbus," with more 
pride, more honor, and more emphasis than it was said in times 
of old, "I am a citizen of Rome." 

The singing of the doxology closed the morning exercises. 

Among those on the stand while the speaking was going on 
were: Hon. B. F. Martin, Judge Gilbert H. Stewart, Hon. 
John J. Lentz, D. J. Clahane, J. H. Creighton, Mrs. Geo. 
Luckey, L. 0. Herrick and wife, O. P. Minor and wife, H. L. 
Bradfield, J. N". Barber, Henry Ady Slyh, James Fippin, Sarali 
Sandy, Mrs. Emma Saunders, Joseph Saunders, John Phillips, 
W. R. Pheneger, Hiram Hill and wife, A. I^. Gregg, Bydia A. 
Thompson, Joshua Leazenbee and wife, Reuben Smith, Mary 
Fippin, Mrs. Murilla H. Moore, Rachel Siblev, J. C. McDonald, 
R. R. Hooper, B. Pompelly, W. C. Lenhart, Wm. Lisle, A. 
Hildreth, Rev. Daniel Horlocker, John J. Janeway, Joseph H. 
Creighton, L. D. Jones, Mrs. Mary Wharton, Daniel and Anna 
Brintlinger, Mrs. Elizabeth Billings, Mrs. Amy Paxton, Mrs. 
.Nancy Patterson and Mary A. Karns. 

The pioneers spent most of the day in holding family reunions, 
and all over the entire grounds little groups of them could be 
found talking over the scenes of their early life when Columbus 
was but a struggling village, and when the white man and his 
red brother met one another on the exact spot where the cen- 
tennial exercises were being held. 



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The sight of so many of the early settlers who struggled so 
valiantly in building the foundation of what is now the third city 
in tlie state, was indeed an inspiring one, and many a young man 
could be seen gathered in with the old pioneers listening to tales 
which, to them, was history, but which to the relators was part 
of their life. 

The Indian village was well patronized, and the grounds re- 
echoed with the shouts of the red warriors, which shouts were 
taken up by the small boys so that one might almost believe a 
genuine massacre was going on. 




FRANKI^INTON SCHOOI, BUILDING ON SITE OF FIRST COURT HOUSE. 

THE AFTEENOOISr SPORTS. 

At the lake 10,000 people saw the aquatic events in the after- 
noon. The first event prepared by Professor Owens was the 50- 
yard hurdle race for a jardiniere donated by C. Roth. Carl 
Comstock won, with Charles Shields second. The tiig of war 
was won by Captain Charles Boyer's team, made up of himself, 
Wni. Coughlin and George Fuchs. In the tub race the prize 

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was a hat donated by Charles Link. David O'Kourke won this, 
with Bert Kicketts second. Professor Owens then gave one of 
his fine swimming exhibitions. 

rhe crowd hurried over to the race track, where the ladies' 
horseback race was speedily run. The race of the Eed Men in 
full regimentals was a feature that took well with the crowd. 
Among the entries were D. T. Mought, of White Bear Tribe 
No. 107; George Eli, of Beaver Tribe No. 110; W. A. Schultz, 
of Algonquin; Joseph Adarno, of Sioux No. 128; LovettDeNonn, 
of Sioux, and D. F. Bartlett. Mought won the race. After the 
Red Men's race came the mile bicycle race — prizes $1,75 cents 
and 50 cents. H. Cusac won, George White second, Sam 
Cartem third. Time, 2:36 1-4. In the quarter mile bicycle 
races for prizes as designated above H. Cusac won, Howard Bige- 
low second and Sam Corbin third. 

The acrobats were on the trapezes when a heavy rainstorm, 
which had been gathering -for some time, broke. Like a flash 
up went thousands of umbrellas. Trees, tents, refreshment 
stands, awnings and even barrels were used to keep the rain 
away, but it was no use. The colors of the red and blue decora- 
tions ran and then the women in their white dresses pressed 
against the decorations, going away looking like Indians in full 
war paint. It was not five minutes until the race track was a 
ring of thick nuid and the infield ankle deep in water. The 
clouds broke away for a time and then the Fourteenth O. N, G. 
band played a lively tune to show the crowds that each cloud 
must have somewhere a silver lining. This proved to be but a 
temporary entertainihent, however, for the rain began again 
worse than ever. 

The enthusiasm and ardor of the thousands of people on the 
ground was not in the least dampened by the rain, and they 
heroically stood the downpour in their desire to witness the sham 
battle. The band remained under the old apple tree in the 
center of the race track and discoursed patriotic and other airs. 

As soon as the first lull in the rain had ceased, consultation was 
held between Colonel Freeman, Major Speaks, of the First bat- 
talion and some of the Indian braves, as to the advisability of 
declaring the sham battle off. The braves were willing to fight, 



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as were the soldiers, and tlio two contending sides soon came to 
the agreement tliat the battle would be all the more realistic if 
fought under such discouraging conditions. 

The mud on the ground was at least from four to six inches 
thick, and the Indians who were engaged in the consultation 
slowly wended their way through this back to the reservation. 
Tlie police and assistants were ordered to clear the battlefield, 
and the work was comparatively slight. The majority sought 
shelter und(n' the trees along the hill to the south, and upon the 
bluffs to the north. The scene about was a beautiful, yet weird 
one. Dusk was settling over the land, and the thousand raised 
umbrellas, on a background of green and white, were plainly 
discernible. An occasional flash of lightning only added 
realism. 

While the crowds were being scattered out of danger, the sup- 
plies and ammunition were being issued to the warriors. They 
tiletl (l()wn the beaten trail, now slimy with mud, and slowly filed 
Ijack again. Occasionally some enthusiastic Indian would fire 
his gun in order to stir up more enthusiasm. The settlers, with 
their wives and children, occupied positions in the old Harrison 
stal)le, while the soldiers were stationed back to the northwest 
on the hillside. Everything in readiness, Colonel Freeman 
ordered the Jiuirker stationed in sight of all tc give the signal. 

The attack ;hen began on the settlers' cabin. A few Indians 
uianaged :o tet close enough to the cabin to secure a prisoner. 
The settlers finally drove the remainder off, and then took refuge, 
with their families, in the block house. Here some more rapid 
firing took place. The women were escorted back to positions 
less dangerous, while the men were kept in the block house. 
Finally a large band of Indians, detouring around over the 
Indian trail, up on the hill to the south, attacked the block house 
unawares from that point. Another warm fight ensued, and the 
Indians managed to scale the block house fence, and destroy a 
])art of it. Then began the pillaging. The settlers fell back 
to tlie woods, and scattered about. A scout came in and in- 
formed the remnant of them still remaining to stand firm, that 
the troo|)s, represented by the Fourteenth regiment, O. N", G., 
were coming. At this they took heart and managed to force the 



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red men back again a sliort distance, but the Indians, being re- 
inforced by a band of Sciotos, again charged the Ijlock house. 

The fight waged warm, but the Indians were successful, and 
finally succeeded in capturing the stronghold. While they were 
rummaging through the building, a small blaze was seen to creep 
along the side of the building, slowly eat its way through a dry 
part of the canvass, make a final spurt, and then die. On the 
opposite side, a blaze also made the same attempt, but failed. 
The painter who evolved the logs from the white muslin evi- 
dently was too realistic, and got too much green paint on the 
canvas. The block house failed to bum and, at the close of the 
battle, still stood as a monument to the enterprise of the early 
settlers who erected it, under the supervision of Colonel Free- 
man. 

But this hitch in the program did not stop the fight. The 
troops arrived from the rear in good time, and made their attack. 
They fired volley after volley upon the retreating Indians, and 
many of them fell, seemingly wounded and dying. As fast as 
a brave would fall, he would be picked up by a companion and 
hustled off to the reservation, on the island, and there his injuries 
would be attended to by the squaws. 

The soldiers did not escape losses from the battle. The am- 
bulance corps did excellent duty, and caused the false report to 
be circulated about the grounds that three of the soldiers were 
killed and removed to town. One was carried to the rear on the 
back of a companion, and this little bit of realistic acting caused . 
loud shouts of approval to come from the vast audience. The 
troops finally managed to close in on the Indians, and but few of 
them escaped. Those who did manage to elude the gallant First 
battalion, safely reached the reservation, where they were wel- 
comed by the braves who were restored to life through the 
wonderful medium of certain medicine kept exclusively by the 
Indians. 

The sham battle was a success, but it was not without its ac- 
cidents. Henry Lechtner, of Scioto Tribe of Red Men, was 
struck in the face by a gun Avad. Others slightly injured in the 
same way were: Ulrich E. Ackerberg, Philip Wareham and 
Adam Houck. The hospital corps was in charge of Major 



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Giierin, I)r, II. M. Taylor aiid Hospital Steward Rieliards and 
did good work on the field of battle. 

The Indian forces, with the different tribes and chiefs, were 
Colonel Henry M. Innis, grand chief; Algonqnin Tribe, Chief 
James F. Ileille; Scioto Tribe, Chief Charles Fix; Olentangy, 
Chief John Abotwill; Walhonding, Chief Charley Cruse; Buf- 
falo, Chief Charles La^Faster; Beaver, Chief George Ell; Deer- 
foot, Chief James Wolf; Sionx, Chief Joseph Adams; Altamaha, 
(liief William Iless; White Bear, Chief D. T. Mought; Toma- 
hawk, Chief H. Olnhausen; Opecancanongh, Chief Henry 
Esper. 

The storm continuing, the remainder of the program was 
abandoned, and the crowd, bedraggled, but otherwise delighted, 
went homeward. ''It was a disappointing close," said Chairman 
Dennis J. Clahaiio, ''but think what it would have been if we had 
had a rainy week." 

The gala appearance of Franklinton before tlve rain on the last 
day of the celebration, was thus described in verse in the Evening 
Dispatch : 

FRANKLINTON'S COLORS. 

And have you seen old Franklinton 

With flags and banners gay. 
From those good folk no broiling sun 

Can drive their zeal away; 
And everywhere their joy shines through 
The dear old red and white and blue. 

These colors speak a faithful past, 

A loyal future, too — 
The pioneers with patriots classed 

And generations new 
That cherish what the pioneers 
So wisely built in other years. 

But gray is also on review, 

The gray of crowning hair. 
And wrinkles that esteem renew 

That shines out everywhere, 
For these are they that ever glow 
The badges of the long ago. 



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Tuesday evening, September 21, in the week following the 
celebration, there was a citizens' meeting in the Fourteenth 
ward wigwam at which the following resolutions were adopted: 

Whereas, The one hundredth anniversary of the founding 
of Franklinton was fittingly celeln-ated on the 14th 15th and 
16th inst., in whicdi glorious tribute was paid by voice and pen 
to the memory of Lucas Sullivant and his associates; and, 
whereas, the citizens of Columbus, irrespective of locality, the 
newspapers of our own and surrounding cities did magnificent 
work to make the centennial a success; therefore, be it 

Eesolved, That the people of the West Side extend our warm- 
est feelings of gratitude to the newspapers, the chairmen of the 
various committees, to the executive board, to all who sacrificed 
time or money, to do justice to the memorv of men who did so 
much for Columbus, her life, character and impulse; and, fur- 
ther, be it 

Resolved, That special thanks is due Dr. A. B. Richardson, 
the trustees of the Columbus hospital, for the generous use of 
their beautiful grounds; to Hon. Governor Asa Bushnell, Rt. 
Rev. Bishop Watterson, General John Bcatty, Colonel Edward 
Taylor, Hon. J. J. Lentz, Hon. B. F. Martin and others for their 
presence and their masterly addresses; to Mayor Black and his 
municipal associates for special favors, to Professor Lott, O. C. 
Hooper, Mrs. Ella May Smith and their magnificent chorus. 

The aggregate of expenditures on account of the centennial 
was, as shown by the report of R. M. Rownd, treasurer, $2604,83. 
Of this amount $424.60 was met by the sale of privileges and 
souvenirs. At the time the report was made $124.50 had been 
paid into the treasury by the advertising committee, and it was 
expected that enough more w^ould be paid in by that committee 
to reduce the net expenses to an amoimt less than $2000. 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE EXHIBIT OF RELICS. 



No feature of the centennial was. fronj a historical standpoint, 
more interesting than the relics that were gathered from the 
liomes of Cohimbns and, in some instances, from a distance, an(] 
served to illustrate different phases of the Franklinton pioneer 
and later life. The committee to which this work was entrusted 
])romptly and enthusiastically began operations. Each mem- 
ber contributed such information as he had, the newspapers took 
up the search and by word of mouth and print, many objects in- 
teresting because of their age and association were located. The 
owners of these articles entered readily into the spirit of the 
exhibit and the connnittee received many offers to loan articles, 
conditioned only on their safe return. Professor AVarren K. 
Afoorehead was chosen secretary of the committee, and upon 
him and his corjjs of assistants devolved the by no means eas;y 
task of c'olleeting the relics, arranging the exhibit and finally 
I'eturning the arti(des to their respective owners. Professor 
Moorehead's assistants were: Mr. H. E. McAlister, assistant 
secretary; Frank Jennings, R. H. Cockins, Clarence Loveberry, 
^liss Helen (liapin and Miss Lucy Allen. Mrs. Margaret 
Angell was })ut in cbarge of the decorations. 

The place selected for the exhibit was the Highland Avenue 
School building, south of Broad street near the centennial 
grounds. The northeast room of the building was set apart for 
the display of relics of interest to women. A feature of this 
display was the collection of quaint old wedding gowns, hand- 
woven or hand-sewed, and for the most part of silk. Another 
was the silver and china ware. The smaller relics were taste- 
fully arranged in a number of glass cases. The northwest room 
of the building was used for the display of Indian relics and 



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agricultural and utlier tools used by the early settlers in sub- 
duing the forests and tilling the virgin soil. Two rooms on the 
south side of the building were used to display old spinning 
wheels, hand looms^ kitchen utensils and many other things 
ranging from an old flint lock musket to a tin lantern or brass 
spoon mold. 

The contribution of the Ohio State Archaeological and His- 
torical Society to the exhibit of relics was an important one and 
demonstrated the part which this excellent society is playing in 
preserving for future generations the tangible evidences of pre- 
historic and pioneer life. The Indian relics, contributed by the 
society to the exhibit, were of prime interest to all the visitors, 
for they were the visible proofs of the existence of the foe whom 
the Franklinton pioneers had to meet and who figured in many 
of the reminiscences. Several of the most perfect spinning 
wheels and some carefully preserved chairs of the long ago, were 
also among the society's contributions; and last but not least, 
a whisky still from which proceeded some of the beverage that 
was in pioneer days so important an element in barter and sale. 
In fact the Archaeological and Historical Society's collection 
was the nucleus of the exhibit, and to the energy of Professor 
Moorehead, who was curator of the society as well as secretary 
of the committee,, and to his excellent, corps of assistants is duc- 
tile greater part of the credit for the collection and artistic ar- 
rangement of thousands of articles of historic interest. 

Another interesting individual exhibit which calls for special 
note was Mr. Jewett L. !N"orris' collection of pistols and revolvers, 
numbering about thirty, and representing different types from 
the first make to that of the present. 

The rooms were elaborately decorated and every article on 
show was properly labeled. A writer in the Ohio State Journal 
thus characterized the exhibit: "In elaborateness of detail in all 
the lines of the articles in use in the days of a hundred years ago 
throughout the Western country, the collection is most truly 
surprising, and certainly well worth more than a casual examina- 
tion. The freedom with which the relics were loaned by the 
residents of Columbus and vicinity is to be heartily commended, 
as it rendered possible one of the most interestingly unique and 
instructive features of the occasion." 



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Amid these sui'i'(iiiii(Iiniis, tliei'c was held nii the second day of 
the eeiiteiiiiial ('(dehratioii, a i|iiihiiiiz,', \veaviii<i,' and s|)iniiinj>; bee 
and tea j)arty, after the manner of lonjz,' aj>,(). The central tii>;iu'cs 
in tliis jnost extraordinary event were Mrs. Cassandra Moore, 




TOMBSTONE IN OLD FRANKI.INTON GRAVEYARD. 

aged 81 years, who was born on the very spot where the celebra- 
tion was held; Mrs. Rachel Lyons and Mrs. Jane Chambers, of 
Steelton; Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders, 68 years of age, born in 
Frankliiiton, and who vent west with Michael Sullivant when he 
bought his 00,000 acre farm at Burr Oak, 111.; Mrs. Barbara 



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Hunter, aged 67 years, known throngliont the West Side on nc- 
connt of ministering to the sick and the afflicted as "The Good 
Samaritan"; Mrs. Clarke, aged 67 vears; Mrs. Malinda Dear- 
durf Davidson, aged 63 years, and Mrs. Clarinda Deardiirf 
Moats, her twin sister, and Miss Carol Grillespie, great-great 
grandanghter of Abraham and Katherine Deardurf, who settled 
in Franklinton in 1798. Miss Gillespie was dressed in her 
great-great grandmother's gown, 100 years old, kerchief 108 
made linen, 103 years old; kerchief, 108 years old: breastpin, 
125 years old, and cap, 100 years old. She wore this while acting 
as waitress for the old ladies' tea partv. All the old ladies were 
dressed in the fashion which prevailed I'tO years ago. . 

The table cloth was of homespun linen 200 years old and the 
tea service was 150 years oid. They compose an heirloom ol 
the Deardurf family ana were brought over the mountains from 
southeastern Pennsylvania, in a wagon, in 1798 and have been 
in Franklinton ever since. 

During the afternoon the old ladies above named gave an ex- 
hibition of the primitive manner in which the great grand- 
mothers of the present generation spun and wove the cloth for 
clothing of the men, women, boys and girls of ye olden time. 

The following poem of "Ye Olden Days," wa-itten by Dr. 
Alice Gillespie Allen, was dedicated to the old ladies' quilting, 
spinning and weaving bee: 

On a bright spring morning in ninety-seven, 

As the sun shone out in the eastern heaven. 

Sending the rose her brightest hue, 

And tinting the hilltops' diamond dew. 

There rose in the rude log hut a wail — 

A strange new sound — from where did it hail? 

In the "fireplace" corner, aw^ay from the damp. 

In a hewed cut log from the "sugar camp," 

On a mossy pillow, in coonskin wrap, 

In a "dimity" slip and a "bobinet" cap, 

A sweet girl babe in the cradle lay. 

Her blue eyes wide with the beautiful day. 



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llor ganiicnts liad coiiio from that, lioiiic in i\\v east, 
Snugly stowed in tlu^ "till" of an old oak eliest, 
To the new forest home in Ohio so wild, 
Where the pioneers cherished this tirst-horn child, 
(^1nlely and strong grew this maiden fair — 
J>earne(l to spin, weaNc and sew with greatest eare. 

"Linsev" eonnterpane, eoverlet, wove she without fears 

'I'hat they would weai" out in a hundred years; 

So strong, so ])retty and so well made 

That they cast our goods of today in the shade. 

'I'liey are dear to <»ur hands, our eyes and our hearts. 

For they attest great grandmother's housewifely art. 

* * ->5- -x- * * * * * 

As the sun steals low o'er the western plain, 

Grand grand dame nods at ns rogues again, 

As we beg for a tale she has thrice told. 

That is ever new, nor will it grow old 

Of the dear old pioneer days long gone ; 

Of the conquests made and the hard tasks done. 

The dear far-away days when she was young, 

Of the games they played and the songs they sung, 

The swift wild deer in the forest path, 

Or the howling wolves and the panther's breath, 

The sly fox lairs, skulking Indian trail — 

Thus she spins us many an old, old tale. 

As she patiently turns to poke the fire. 

And softly smiles at white grand-sire. 

While we silently wonder how, 

With her toil-worn hands and her wrinkled brow. 

Her trembling voice and tottering knee. 

Was she ever so young and supple as we ? 

It is unfortunate that no complete and accurate record of the 
relics on exhibition was made and preserved. From the com- 
mittee's memoranda and receipt stubs, the following list has 
been prepared, which, though incomplete and perhaps in some 
minor details inaccurate, will indicate in some measure the 
notable character of the exhibit: 



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Solicited, Loaned and Several Owned by Alice Gillespie 
Allen, M. D. — Sheep shears, brought over the Blue Ridge bv 
Abraham Deardiirf to Franklinton in 1798; mince bowl, made 
from a tree on the Scioto banks early in 1800; mince knife, 
forged in Franklinton in 1800 by David Deardurf ; rolling pin of 
cherr}' and potato masher, scissors, knife, two-pronged fork, 
German silver spoon, pewter dish, Brittania tea set 150 years old, 
cups, saucers and mug, coverlet woven by Martha Hancock 
Deardurf, damask curtains and counterpane, split bottom chair 
of 1820, neck-kerchief, cap, apron, lace and ribbons, home-spun 
linsey woolsey, needlework of Rachel Deardurf of 1820, willow 
work basket containing needlework 125 years old, reticule 100 
years old, bobinett cap, jackonette dress, carded wool, home- 
spun blanket, 1820; counterpanes and coverlets, ear rings of 
beaten gold 90 years old, home-spun linen feather tick, straw tick 
and toweling, tied fringe handwork, nankeen pantalettes, rolled 
gathers and ruffle, 1830; doll, thimble, beads and buttons of 
1800. 

Albert Slavin— Caps, dresses, laces, silks, wool shawl, veil, 
ceticule, kerchief and exquisite needlework. 

Mrs. C. Griswold — Home-spun linen table cloth 200 years old, 
Delf and pewter dishes, solid silver spoons. 

Mrs. Phillip Shapter — Sugar shovel of solid silver, sugar 
tongs, spoons, tea caddy 150 years old, damask bed curtains, 
settee made in Franklinton in 1836. 

H. J. Booth-:-Copper pans, candle snuffers and warming pan, 
50 years old. 

Mrs. Francis Sells — Pieces of copper ware such as pans, kettles 
and snuffers. 

Charlotte, Frank and Katie Rickenbacher — The following 
articles made in Charlestown, Va., and brought to Franklinton 
in 1800: Sampler, dresses, caps, capes, stockings, veil and 
laces; pitcher 150 years old, coverlet, counterpane, blue Delf 
plate, stuffed stand cover, homesjmn cotton, pictures. 

Malinda Deardurf Davidson — Quilts, pieced by herself to 
commemorate her grandfather's settling in Franklinton. 

Glarinda Deardurf Moats — Centennial quilt, double compass 
red. 



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Barbara Diemer Hunter — Spinning jenny used by herself; 
(luilting frames made in 1820. 

Anna Price — AVall clock, i)e])per mill 150 years old, dress 
waist made in Wales 150 years old, s(inare brass spectacles, Delf 
ware, silver spoons, glass candlestick 150 years old. 

JJ. S. Farmer — Wedding dress, tan flowered silk, worn by 
Charity Clowson Deardnrf in 1845; Bennington rifle of 1770; 
newspaper files, 1840. 

Mrs. Theresa Young — Loom, old papers. 

F. D. Prouty — Pitcher 100 years old. 

L. Little — Fork and iron. 

R. J. Hoy — Pair of baby shoes. 

Wm. M. Burr (Worthington) — Letter and papers. 

E. K. Haves — Steam whistle used to warn the r»p.or>'>p asainat 
Indian uprisings; a banister post. 

J.E. Harris — Two old pennies, dates 1825 and 1830. 
John Haffner — Two old posts from the portico of the old 
Clinton bank. 

Jonathan Dague — Dagger and brass pistol. 

F. A. Brodbeck — Old oil painting; copy of "Ohio Monitor." 
John Champion — Bound volume of The Times; hat plume 

worn by a member of the Fencibles. 

Elizabeth Chambers — Two portraits painted in the old Ohio 
penitentiaiy. 

Annie McAlister — Two pictures. 

Jane Bailey — Bayonet carried by Stewart Bailey. 

AV. M. Hunt — Family history. 

D. McAlister — Gun used during the Revolutionary war. 

Chester Bright — Old pistol. 

H. Warren Phelps (Westerville) — Book containing account 
of expenses of Edward Phelps in coming from Connecticut to 
Ohio with an ox team; old deeds and letters of administration; 
copper skillet used by William Phelps, who came over from 
England in 1630. 

John J. Schwartz — Volumes 1 and 2 of the Ohio Statesman 
from July 5, 1837, to June 27, 1838. 

W. H. Drayer (Ostrander) — Ledger of Henry Brown, one of 
Franklinton's carlv merchants, 1801-1813. 



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From the Governor's Office — Tables and chairs with interest- 
ing historical associations. 

From the Canal ( V>mmissioners' Office — Lithograpli of Co- 
lumbus in the 50's. 

F. M. Dort (Jerome) — Hatchet made in Franklinton in 
1812-13. 

James M. Fnson (Worthington) — Spinning wheels; scrap- 
book containing matter about the old New England company, 
early settlers; side saddle made in 1808. 

J. T. Holmes — Warming pan lirought to Columbus in 1825 
by Alfred Kelley. 

W. H. Restieaux — Commission dated September 1, 1T6G, is- 
sued by King George III to Jonathan ( Uiase, gent, grandfather 
of Salmon P. Chase. 

A. H. Perry — Bound volume of the Weekly Review (Balti- 
more, Md.,) 1812-1813, containing many references to Frank- 
linton and General William Henry Harrison; almanacs published 
in Kew Jersey and at Pittsburg from 1798 to 1810. 

Bernard Pompelly — United States penny of 1783; newspa- 
pers of 1824; an arithmetic of 1791; pair of hand irons brought 
here in 1810, also a rocker of 1810. 

Murilla Hough Moore — Old quilt. 

Archibald Kendel (Chalfant Station, Perry County,) and 
Abram Gorden (Glass Rock, Perry County,) — Guns and ather 
weapons used in the war of 1812. 

Mrs. Anna M. Doherty — Portrait of Colonel John IMcElvain, 
who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 17*^7 ^nd »^: ^^A in the 
war of 1812. 

Mrs. H. HoUenbeck — William Henry Harrison souvenirs. 

George W. Sells (Ada) — Copies of the Western Intelligencer. 

Mrs. Thomas — Tea set 140 years old. 

Wm. M. Ebright — Wagon jack used in the w^ar of 1812; gun 
100 years old; coffee mill of 1811; old dinner horn. 

James D. Poston — Bedspread 100 years old. 

John Otstot — Grindstone from an early mill. 

Mrs. Stevenson — Old garments; watch of curious pattern. 

George Gawler — Clock out of the first state house. 

II. H. McCloud— Old wheels. 



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Charles McEweu (Reynoldsburg) — Spinning wheels; reels. 

W. J. Xouueiniiacher — Old clock from the Insane Asylum; 
old watches. 

Nathaniel Smiths Weather vane from the old court house. 

Anna Richardson — Pictures. 

Cooney Smith — Piece of stair rail out of old court house. 

Joseph Ilinterschied — Old advertising map. 

The Misses Gardiner — Waffle irons, iron pot and kettle, 
veget^ible dish, sugar tongs, chinaware, Mexican baby shoes, cof- 
fee mill, handmade; journal kept by James Gardiner when In- 
dian agent, combs, etc. 

F. Lytle — Old cooking outfit. 

Wm. Sanderson — Santa Anna's war chest. 

Stephen A. Fitzpatrick — Soldier's discharge papers of 1SG2; 
city directory of 1842. 

Miss Flora May Chase — Copy of Columbus Connnercial of 
1865. 

James Sheridan — Directory of 1852. 

Alexander Huston — Swords, etc. 

Jewett L. Norris — Old revolvers. 

Mrs. Sinclair — Picture of old court house. 

A, AV. Bayles — Old hymn book. 

M. E. Thrailkill — Cotton and flax reel made in 1827; also the 
flyer of a flax wheel and the head of a spinning wheel; pair of 
kettle hooks. 

William Earl (Park Mills)— Old Bible with family record of 
first judge in Franklinton, O. 

Daniel Brintlinger — Old chair. 

Mrs. Wm. J. Brink — Old fashioned sieve made in 1809. 

Philip Shapter — Red damask curtains brought from Europi?; 
to Franklin county by great grandfather; silver sugar shovel, 
ear rings, brooch, jewel case, tea caddy 150 years or more old, 
settee made in 1836. 

Walter Momson — Old diaries kept by Justin Morrison in 
1830-1850; a pass given to same to attend funeral of Governor 
Brough at Cleveland, August 31, 1865; lady's hoo<:l, sun bonnet, 
purses and coins; leather carpet sack, shawl, silver candlestick 
and snuffers. 



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Mrs. James Eckles — Plaid shawl, dislies. 

Mrs. Daniel Stewart — Land grant; portrait and curios. 

Mrs. L. G. Cookman — Ink well; artist's box made from wood 
from the Franklinton court house; letters from Governor Thomas 
Worthington and other prominent men of that time; grand- 
father's clock. 

Mrs. Jesse Clark — Coins; Greek lamp used in Franklinton. 

John Kerr — Advertisement of first land sale made in Colum- 
bus ; letters and other relics. 

Besides, there were on exhibition, portraits of pioneers and old 
citizens as follows: Lucas Sullivant, William Sullivan t, 
Michael Sullivant, Joseph Sullivant, William Domigan, Gen- 
eral William Henry Harrison, P. H. Olmstead, David Taylor and 
wife, Thomas Miller, John M. Pugh, Huntington Fitch, M. Mc- 
A lister, P. Hayden, D. W. Deshler, Grafton Doty, John L. Gill, 
Jacob Reinhard, Frederick Fieser, William Savage. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE OROWTH OF FRANKLINTON, 



Having in the fii'st chapter glanced briefly at the founding of 
Franklinton and, in the five succeeding chapters at the celebra- 
tion of the centennial of that event, it is proper in this to continue 
tlie history of the settlement and to note how the founder and 
his associates bore themselves amid the hardships and dangers of 
])ioncer life. Let it first be observed, however, that the terri- 
tory comprised within the present limits of Franklin county was 
before the \\'hitc settlement, occupied in t\irn by Delawares, 
Mingos and IShawnee Indians, but those who contested its oc- 
<-ui)ation with the white men were Wyandots. The Indians 
whom Lucas Sullivant's surveying party encountered in 1795 
were Wyandots. Wyandot corn fields in the lowlands below the 
forks of the Scioto tempted him and suggested the site for his 
town. There were some Iroquois villages in the county, but 
tliey dwindled and the territory was soon given over to the des- 
ultory conflict of Wyandots and white men. 

The first family settlement in Franklinton, after it had been lo- 
cated by Lucas Sullivant, was made, says Lee in his History 
of Columbus, by Josej)h Dixon in the autumn of 1797. During 
the ensuing winter and spring there were other arrivals, among 
whom were George Skidmore, John Brickell, Robert Armstrong, 
Jeremiah Armstrong, William Domigan, James Marshall, the 
Deardurfs, the McElvains, the Sells, John Lysle, WilHam 
Fleming, elacol) Grubb, Jacob Overdier, Arthur O'Harra, Joseph 
Foos, John Blair, Michael Fisher and John Dill. The McEl- 
vaines emigrated to Ohio from Kentucky in the spring of 1797. 
Tliey remained at Chillicothc during the ensuing summer, and 
ai'i'lvcd at Franklinton during tlic spring of 1708. William 

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Domigan came from Maryland, Michael Fisher from Virginia, 
Joseph Foos from Kentucky and John Dill from York county, 
Pa, These were followed later by David and Joseph Jamison 
and Colonel Robert Culbertson and family, all of whom came 
from Shippensburg, Pa. 

During the first years of the settlement of Franklinton there 
was much sickness. For a few of the first years the fever and 
ague prevailed so generally in the fall seasons as to totally dis- 
courage many of the settlers; so that they would, during the 
prevalence of the disease, frequently resolve to abandon the 
country and remove back to the old settlements. But on the 
return of health, the prospective advantages of the country, the 
noble crops of corn and vegetables, the fine stock range and the 
abundance of wild game, deer, turkey, etc., with which the 
country abounded, all conspired to reanimate them, and encour- 
age them to remain another year. 

There are no statistics to show how many people gathered at 
Franklinton in the first five years after it was laid out, but it is 
probable that when Franklin county was created in 1803 by the 
first general assembly of Ohio, Franklinton had a population of 
fifty or more. There the courts of the county were established 
and Lucas Sullivant was appointed by the judges as clerk of the' 
courts. It is interesting to note that at the first state election 
held June 21, 1803, Franklin county cast 130 votes, of which 
59 were cast by Franklin township. The prime mover in this 
little colony was Lucas Sullivant, who made it his permanent 
home in 1801. He had, after locating the town, returned to 
Kentucky and married Sarah Starling, daughter of Colonel Wil- 
liam Starling, of Harrodsburg, a descendant of Sir William 
Starling, once Lord Mayor of London. Lucas Sullivant was the 
first clerk of the courts and the first recorder; he built the first 
jail, supervised the erection of the first court house, built the first 
school house, erected at his own expense the first church and 
constructed the first bridge across the Scioto. He was first in all 
the good work of promoting Franklinton's growth and was among 
the last to surrender to Columbus the pre-eminence it was des- 
tined for when it was carved out of the wilderness on the "high 
bluffs" and made the state capital. 



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Among the other enterprising spirits of the time were Joseph 
Foos, who was proprietor of the first tavern and one of the first 
comity judges, and who owned the first ferry across the river; 
William Domigan, who was also a tavern-keeper; James Scott 
and Robert Russell, who were the first store-keepers. One of the 
most difiieult articles to obtain in those days of primitive com- 
merce, when all supplies had to be brought in canoes or by pack- 
horses from the Ohio, was salt. Mr. Sullivant's expedient for 
obtaining salt for his colony is thus descibed by his biographer: 

"He knew that the deer resorted in great numbers to the lick- 
in on the river below Franklinton, and he had observed, when 
encamped there some years before, that there were strong evi- 
dences of the Indians making salt in that place. The work was 
vigorously prosecuted, and the lick cleaned out, when it appeared 
that a feeble stream or spring of weak salt water came to the 
surface at the edge of the river. A wooden curb was inserted, 
which kept out a large portion of the fresh and surface water. 
The salt water was gathered into large wooden troughs hollowed 
out from huge trees, and with the aid of a battery of common 
iron kettles and long-continued boiling, a limited quantity of 
rather poor salt was obtained; but when a road was opened along 
Zane's Trace from AVheeling to Lancaster, and thence to Frank- 
linton, it furnished greater facilities for procuring salt, and this 
well was abandoned." 

Ry act of the first General Assembly of Ohio, March 30, 
1808, Franklin county was created and Franklinton was fixed 
upon as the county seat. The first Franklin county judges, 
which were chosen by the General Assembly, were John Dill, 
David Jamison and Joseph Foos, the first named being presiding 
judge. This court met early in May following, elected Lucas 
Sullivant clerk, divided the county into four townships — Har- 
rison, Liberty, Franklin and Darby — and ordered the election of 
justices of the peace, June 21 following. In pursuance of this 
order Zachariah Stephen and James Marshal were elected just- 
ices in Franklin township, Josiah Ewing in Darby, William Ben- 
nett in Harrison, Joseph Hunter and Ezra Brown in Liberty. 
The court at its second sitting in September took steps for the 
construction of roads to Lancaster and ISTewark, appointing view- 



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ers to act in conjunction with viewers appointed by the court of 
Fairfield county; also for the construction of roads to Spring- 
field and to Worthington. Kewards were also ordered by the 
court to be paid for the killing of wolves and panthers, $1 for a 
wolf or panther under six months old and $2 for each wolf or 
panther over six months old. Several licenses to keep tavern 
were granted; township collectors and other officers were ap- 
pointed. With such business as this — much of it strange to the 
courts of today — was the first county court of Franklin employed. 

At the term of court beginning in January, 1804, it was 
ordered that a jail be built according to the following specifica- 
tions, which are copied from the records of Lucas Sullivant, 
clerk: 

"Of logs twelve feet long and eighteen inches in diameter, 
with two sides hewed so as to make a face of eight inches, and to 
be let down dove-tailing so as to make the logs fit close together; 
to be seven feet at least between the lower and upper floors, which 
floor is to be of timbers of like thickness, with three sides hewed 
so as to let them lie entirely close, and to be smooth on the face 
of the lower floor, and the upper floor to show an even face in 
like manner on the lower side and to have two rounds of logs at 
least, of like timbers, above the upper floor; then to have a cabin 
roof (made of clapboards held down by timbers laid transversely 
in lines about three feet apart) well put on, a door cut out, two 
feet eight inches wide, and prepared in a workmanlike order, to 
hang the shutter of the door, which shutter is to be made in a 
strong and sufficient workmanlike manner of plank two inches 
thick. There is to be two windows, eight inches by ten inches 
wide, made in said prison house, which windows are to be secured 
by two bars of iron one inch square sufficiently cut in, in each 
window, the corners closely sawed or cut down." 

This jail was built by Lucas Sullivant, who was then both 
county clerk and county recorder pro tempore, at a cost of $80. 
Thus the offenders against law were early provided with quart- 
ers. The interpreters and to some extent the executors of law 
Avere, however, without a fixed abode till 1807, renting rooms, 
until that date, wherever they were found convenient. In the 
vear mentioned, Lucas Sullivant, under direction of the court, 



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erected a court house of brick made from the clay of one of the 
ancient mounds in the vicinity. Arthur O'Harra, contractor, 
huilt a brick jail about the same time. These buildings were 
located at the northeast corner of Broad and Sandusky streets and 
remained standing until 187-3, when they were torn down to make 
room for the Franklinton School building. 

Among the new settlers in Franklinton from 1805 to 1812 
were Isaac and Jeremiah Miner, Samuel White and sons, the 
Stewarts, the Johnstons, the Weatheringtons, the Shannons, the 




RESIDENCE OF JOHN WILCOX, ON THE SITE OF HOUSE IN WHICH FIRST 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SERVICES WERE HELD IN FRANKLINTON. 



Stambaughs, the Ramseys, the Mooberrys, the Sharpes, the 
Deckers, the Rareys, the Olmsteads, the Kiles, Jacob Gander, 
Percival Adams, John Swisher, George W. Williams, Lyne 
Starling, Doctor Lincoln Goodale, Doctor Samuel Parsons, R. 
W. McCoy, Francis Stewart, Henry Brown, John Kerr, Alex 
McLaughlin, Orris Parish, Ralph Osbom, Gustavus Swan and 
Rev. James Hoge. 

The want of grist mills was severely felt by the early settlers, 
and in 1807, Mr. Sullivant contemplated the erection of a good 
mill, and, preparatory thereto, undertook a great w^ork for those 



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days. It was to dig a mill-race of more than a mile in length, 
for the mill was to be situated on the west bank of the river, at 
"Billy's hole," which received its name from the fact that Billy 
Wyandot, an Indian, was drowned at that point, near where the 
Harrisburg bridge now stands. The contractor on the race 
finally threw up the job, after digging the race from the site of 
the present state dam to a point near the city gi'avel banks. 

But the administration of law, the enlargement of business, 
road building, tavern-keeping and the killing of wolves were not 
the whole life mth these hardy pioneers. Education and re- 
ligion claimed a part of their attention. Lucas Sullivant, Jere- 
miah Armstrong, John Brickell, Jacob Overdier, Joseph Foos, 
Arthur O'Harra, Lyne Starling, George Skidmore, Jacob Grubb, 
Robert Russell and James Hoge were all intelligent and public- 
spirited men, who held education to be of prime importance. 
Thus it came about that, probably in 1806, Lucas Sullivant built 
a log school house, which was fifteen or sixteen feet square, with 
puncheon floor, rough slab benches supported at either end by 
a pair of hickory pins inserted into auger holes; battened door 
with wooden hinges and latch raised from its notch with a string ; 
a clap-board roof with weight poles and a fireplace and stick 
chimney. It is probable that this village school house had 
greased white j)aper for window light in winter and open win- 
dows in summer. The building was located about a square and a 
half north of Broad street west of Sandusky street. Unhappily 
the name of the first school teacher in this primitive building is 
not definitely known, but two of the early teachers were Miss 
Sarah Reed and Miss Mary Wait. Joel Buttles was an early 
teacher near "Worthington, and it is from his diary that it is 
learned how the schools then were supported. His diary con- 
tains the following contract: 

"These presents witnesseth: That, on condition that Joel 
Buttles shall attend duly five days in one week and six days in the 
other, alternately, and six hours in each day, for the space of 
three months, and teach reading, writing and arithmetic accord- 
ing to the best of his knowledge, we, the subscribers, promise and 
oblige ourselves to pay to tho said Joel Buttles, at the expiration 
of said term of three months, each for himself, one dollar and 



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sixty-two and a half cents for each scholar we may respectively 
subscribe; and, should some unavoidable or unforeseen accident 
liiuder said Buttles from attending the whole of said term, we 
obligate ourselves to pay said Buttles in a due proportion for 
the time he may attend. And likewise the subscribers are to 
bear, each his just proportion, in boarding said Buttles and to 
furnish a convenient school house, together with a sufficient 
(piantity of firewood so that school may commence the first day 
of January next." 

I'lider this contract Mr. Buttles secured twelve pnpils. Thus 
for his three months' work he received $19,50 and his board. 
Dr. Peleg Sisson, who taught in the Franklinton school, was paid 
in this fashion and probably to about the same extent. Mrs. 
Judge Price, nee McDow^ell, is quoted in Lee's History of Co- 
lumbus as saying: 

'*In 1816 Dr. Sisson had a school in Franklinton which I at- 
tended. It was a log school house built, I think, for that purpose, 
*he only furniture being benches made of slabs of wood with 
legs in them. My nncle, Lucas Sullivant had it built. As no 
one in those early days took boarders, Dr. Sisson made his home 
for a week at a time among his different pupils, with rich and 
poor alike. It was a good school, for Dr. Sisson was a man of 
high character." 

Another of the early school teachers was William Lusk, who 
came from Massachusetts, settled in Franklinton and taught a 
common subscription school. In 1819 he established an acad- 
emy. 

The pioneer preacher of Franklinton was Rev. James Hoge, 
who, November 19, 1805, reached Franklinton during a mission- 
ary pilgrimage through Ohio. Mr. Hoge came of good old 
Scotch stock and was, at the date mentioned, in his twenty-second 
year. He had taught school in Virginia and studied theology 
privately, there being then no seminary for the education of 
young men to the ministry. On the 17th of April preceding his 
api^earance at Franklinton, he had been licensed by the presby- 
tery at Lexington, Va., to preach and had subsequently obtained 
from the general assembly of the Presbyterian church an ap- 
pointment as itinerant missionary in Ohio. He came into the 



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state with a view to locating in Higliland county, but continued 
his journeying with the result that he located at Franklinton. 
The day following his arrival he preached in a room in the house 
of John Overdier, a two-story frame, a picture of which is care- 
fully preserved among the historic relics of the First Presbyterian 
church. This was the room also rented for the courts prior to 
the erection of the first court house. 

Rev. Mr, Hoge remained at Franklinton until April of the fol- 
lowing year, when he was forced by ill health to return to Vir- 
ginia. On his homewfa-d way, he was attacked by a violent hem- 
orrhage and fell prostrate bv a spring near Lewisburgh, Va. He 
drank copiously of the water and was refreshed and sustained till 
rescued by a womi.n who lived in a neighboring cabin. She 
cared for him until he was able to resume his journey. In the 
fall of the same year he resumed his labors in Franklinton and 
thenceforth for more than half a century wrought zealously and 
successfully in Franklinton and Columbus. 

During Eev. Hoge's first visit in Franklinton, the little congre- 
gation which he gathered had been organized into a Presbyterian 
church, February 18, 1806, by Rev. Robert G. Wilson, D. D., 
then of Chillicothe, and for many years president of Ohio IJni- 
v^ersity at Athens. This was the first church of any denomina- 
tion organized in Franklin county. Its members numbered 13 
and were as follows : Colonel Robert Culbertson and wife, Wil- 
liam Reed and wife, David N^elson and wife, Michael Fisher and 
wife, Robert Young and wife, Mrs. Margaret Thompson, Mrs. 
Susan McCoy and Miss Catherine Kessler. Besides, there were 
in the congregation the families of Lucas Sullivant, William 
Shaw, Adam Turner, John Turner, Joseph Hunter, J. Hamlin, 
S. G. Flenniken, John Dill, J. McGowan, George Skidmore, 
Samuel King, William Brown, sr., Joseph Park, David Jameson, 
Andrew Park, M. Thojiipson, William Domigan, John Overdier, 
Jacob Overdier, Charles Hunter, John Lisle, J. Mcllvaine, M.' 
Hess, John McCoy, Joseph Smart, Isaac Smart, S. Powers, 
Joseph Dickson and Joseph Cowgill. Many of the descendants 
of these men are residents of Columbus today. 

The church continued to hold public worship in the homes of 
John Overdier and David Broderick until the court house was 



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erected on the corner of Broad and Sandusky streets in 1807, 
when that building was used. On September 25, 1807. the 
church formally called Kcv. Mr. Hoge to the pastorate for three- 
fourths of hie time, the other one-fourth to be spent in missionary 
efforts "within the bounds of the county and parts adjacent." 
The salary promised was $300 in half-yearly payments. That is 
precisely the amount Rev. Mr. Hoge had been receiving as mis- 
sionary under the direction of the general assembly of the church. 
'Jims financially he was the gainer in whatever amount he could 




FXRST COURT HOUSE IN FRANKI,INTON. 

cj!rn as a missionary during one-fourth of his time, ''within the 
bounds of the county and parts adjacent." As the county at 
that time had an area of 600 square miles, with a population of 
about 2000 widely scattered, it is evident that the conditions were 
ripe for vast work if not great results. 

Following is a verbatim copy of the call extended to l\ev. Mr. 
lloge. The old document, in the handwriting of Lucas SuUi- 
vant, is still preserved: 

"The congregation of Franklinton, being on sufficient ground 
well satisfied of the ministerial (qualifications of you, James Hoge, 



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and liaviiig goud Iio])es from our past cxperifiice of your labors, 
that your ministration in the gospel will be profitable to our 
spiritual interests, do earnestly call and desire you to undertake 
the pastoral office in said congregation ; promising you in the dis- 
charge of your duty, all proper support, encouragement and 
obedience in the Lord; and that you may be free from worldly 
cares and avocations, we hereby promise and oblige ourselves to 
pay to you the sum of three hundred dollars, in half yearly pay- 
ments, annually, for three-fourths of your time, until we find 
ourselves able to give you a compensation for the whole of your 
time, in like proportion, during the time of your being and con- 
tinuing the regular pastor of this church. In testimony whereof, 
we have respectively subscribed our names, this the 25th day of 
September, Anno Domini 1807. 

"ROBEET CULBERTSON, 
"WILLIAM READ, 

"Elders. 
'^JOSEPH DIXO^, 
"JOHN DILL, 
"DAVID NELSON, 
"WILLIAM DOMIGAN, 
"JOSEPH HUNTER, 
"LUCAS SULLIV ANT, 

"Trustees." 

The next event in the history of the church was the erection 
by Lucas Sullivant in 1811 of the first building designed especi- 
■ ally for religious services and its presentation by him to the First 
Presbyterian church. This building, which was a one-stor;)' 
structure after the style of the modern country school housb, 
was located on the bank of the river on what is now known a& 
the cemetery lot. Scarcely had it been completed before the 
war with Great Britain broke out and the building was taken 
possession of by the government and used for the storage of grain. 
In March, 1813, while it was still so used, a violent storm wet 
the grain which filled it and caused the grain to swell, bursting 
the walls. The church was a ruin, but the government subse- 
quently made good the loss and another structure was erected in 
1815 upon the site. Soon afterwards the growth of Columbus, 



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" liicli was then ovt'i'shinluwiiig Fraiiklintoii, partially diverted 
the eti"(trts of the Presbyterians to the east side of the river. 
I'l'eacliiiiii' was inaintained in hotli Franklinton and Colnnd^us 
for many years, the work in ('ohnn])ns gainini>' and that in Frank- 
linton losing in magnitude. Tt is not known exactly when serv- 
ices ceased to be held regularly in the Franklinton cdiurcdi, but it 
is probable that they ended with the completion of the church 
edifice on the corner of State and Third streets in 1830. 

After the school and churcdi came the newspaper. It came in 
1S12, the need of it and the opportunity for it having been cre- 
ated by the war of 1812. It was called the Freeman's Chronicle, 
and was published and edited by James B. Gardiner, the publica- 
tion office being located near the .corner of Broad and Sandusky 
streets. The first issue of the paper was dated July 4, 1812; the 
date of the last issue is unknown, but it was probably some time 
in the year 1815. The Chronicle was a weekly of folio form, 
with five columns to the page. At the top of the first page, be- 
neath the name, was printed this motto : 

Here shall the press the people's rights maintain, 
Unawed by influence, unbribed by gain; 
Here patriot truth its glorious precepts draw. 
Pledged to religion, liberty and law. 

The editor was a man of probity and ability, but unfortunately 
he was not a prolific chronicler of the happenings in Franklinton. 
Perhaps what everybody knew it was needless to record in print, 
and so the energy of the press was expended in laying before 
Franklintonians information of the happenings at a distance. 
At any rate the portion of the paper devoted to reading matter 
was given over to news from Europe, vf ashington and the seat 
of war. The Washington news was from three to five weeks old 
and that from Europe generally more than a month, and nearly 
all of it was taken from papers received in exchange. It is 
chiefly to the advertisements that one must look for information 
regarding the character and progress of life in Franklinton. 
There public enter))rises were exploited, businesses were an- 
nounced, runaway slaves sought, debtors dunned and candidacies 
for office announced and. advocated. 



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But th(- editor's life was not a hed of roses. Storms delayed 
the mails and when there were no excdianges there was nothing to 
print. Sometimes the supply of white paper was exhausted; 
sometimes the journeyman printer would leave the editor in the 
lurch; sometimes the editor had other pressing business and some- 
times he was sick. In either event publication was unhesitat- 
ingly deferred, and thus what was meant as a weekly became 
really a very irregular paper. As a sample of the editorial em- 
barrassments of the time, it is related that it was customary to 
wet the roller of the hand press with molasses in order to make the 
ink stick. Mr. Gardiner had been buying his molasses by the 
barrel and the boys had been carrying it off by the bucketful to 
make taff3^ To stop the loss, he placed the barrel at easy spitting- 
distance from his desk and used it as a cuspidor. The boys saw 
the proceeding and troubled his molasses barrel no more. A 
more serious trouble was to get prompt payment for his paper. 
jVroney was scarce and rags, candles, oats, whisky, bacon, hams, 
tiillow, beeswax, wheat, flour, beans, peas, sugar, molasses, 
iiaxseed, raw sheepskins, sausages, fresh meat cheese, but- 
ler, eggs, feathers and poultry were willingly taken on 
subscription account. But such articles would not buy 
])aper and ink. Some money was necessary, and to that effect the 
editor had frequently to remind his subscribers, im]iloring them 
to pay at least half in cash. Then as now, some sul)scribers 
v/ould not pay at all and ui:)On these he had to threaten to use 
"the coercive measures of the law." 

One of the interesting features of the Chronicle — a bound file 
of which is still preserved, the property of Colonel E, L. Taylor — 
was its news of the war of 1812. Much enterprise was shown 
in getting early intelligence from the field and in presenting it 
to Franklintonians. This was done by means of extras — hand- 
bills printed on one side only. After the war, Franklinton lost 
its importance as army headquarters, the transient people went 
elsewhere and the opportunity for publishing a successful news- 
paper dwindled. Mr. Gardiner gave it up and sought other em- 
ployment. Later he moved to Xenia, entered politics, and to 
advocate his cause resumed newspaj)er work temporarily. He 
held several offices by election or appointment and died sudden- 



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ly at Marion, April 12, 1837, while attending a public land 
sale. Mr, Gardiner was a man of medium height and rather 
stout. lie had a high forehead, blonde hair inclined to curl and 
blue eyes. He was an excpiisite dresser for the times. He wrote 
over the pen name of "Coakley'- and as a writer was keenly 
tiatirical and witty. His wife died in 1809 and -the remains of 
both are interred at Greenlawn. Two of his daughters — Misses 
Katherine and Elizabeth Gardiner — are living in this city. 




THE OLU FKANKLINTON GRAVEYARD. 

For seven or eight years after the first settlement of Frank- 
liuton, says Martiii's History of Franklin County, there was 
no postoffiee nearer than Chillicothe, and when other opportuni- 
ties did not offer, the people of the village would occasionally 
raise by contribution the means and employ a man to go to the 
postoffiee (45 miles), to carry letters to be mailed to their distant 
friends and to bring back such letters or papers as might be in 
the office for any of the Franklintonians. Colonel Andrew 
McElvain, for many years a prominent citizen of this countv 
was, when a boy, the first mail carrier between Chillicothe and 
Franklinton. The following interesting letter from the colonel 



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was written with clear recollection on that subject, and it also 
covers nearly the whole ground of the hrst settlement of the 
county. It was dated "West Point Grove, Logan County, Il- 
linois, November 30, 1S50." lie says: 

"I emigrated with my father to Ohio (from Kentucky) in the 
spring of 1797. We remained at Chillicothe that sunmier. 
The fall or winter of 1797-8, a family by the name of Dixon was 
the first white family settled at Franklinton, then called the 
Forks of Scioto. That winter several others arrived there — 
Armstrongs, Skidmores, Deardurfs, Dunkin, Stokes, Balentine; 
early in the spring, McElvains, Hunters, Ilogers, Stevens, 
Browns, Oowgills and Benjamin White. 

"The first meal-making establishment in Franklinton was 
erected 'by Samuel McElvain — that was a hominy block — a hole 
burned in a stump, with a sweep so fixed that two men could 
pound corn into meal; the sifter was a deer skin, stretched over 
a hoop, with small holes made therein by a small hot iron; and 
that block mill supplied the first settlement of Franklin county. 
Our family helped to raise the first corn raised in the county by 
whites. Next was a hand mill erected by Ilogers. The first 
water mill was erected by Robert Balentine on a small stream 
near Hayden's factory, on the town plat of Columbus. There 
was also a small distillery erected near the old Ridgway foundry 
by one White, where the first rot-gut whisky was distilled. The 
same Beniamin White was the first appointed sheriff of said 
county. Afterward a man by the name of Rush erected a mill 
on the Scioto, below the present dam of the Sullivant mill. The 
salt used by the village was manufactured at a salt spring three 
or four miles below the village — perhaps on the White farm, and 
I think Deardurf was the salt maker— but not being profitable, 
it was soon abandoned. In the summer of 1895 the first mail 
contract was taken by Adam Hosac, he being contractor and 
postmaster. The route then was on west side of the Scioto. A 
weekly mail left Franklinton every Friday, stayed over night at 
Markly's mill on Darby creek, next day made Chillicothe, and 
returned to Thompson's on Deer creek, thence home on Sunday. 
W^hen the route was first established there was no postofiice be- 
tween Franklinton and Chillicothe, but during the first winter 



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there was one established at AVestfall, now in Pickaway county; 
afterward one at Markly's mill, about that time changed to 
Hall's mill, I was the first appointed carrier, and did cany the 
first mail to Franklinton, and was employed in that business 
about one year, during tiio winter and spring, having twice to 
swim Darby and Deer creek, carrying the small mail bag on my 
shoulders. * * * I commenced carrying the mail at thirteen 
years old. There was not a house but William Brown's on Big 
Kun, between Franklinton and Darby, and but a cabin at West- 
fall and Doer creek, to Chillicothe. It was rather a lonesome 
route for a boy. * * * There was no regular mail at Worthing- 
ton, but their mail matter was taken up by a young man em- 
]»loyed as a clerk in a store — I think Mr. Matthews. 

"Truly yours, 

"A. McELVAIN." 
The successors of Mr. Hosac in the Franklinton postoffice are 
given in Martin's History as follows: 1811, Henry Brown; 
1812, Joseph Grate; 1813, James B. Gardiner; 1815, Jacob 
Ivellar; 1819, Joseph McDowell; 1820, William Lusk; 1831, 
AVilliam Risley. A few years after Risley's appointment the 
office was discontinued. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE WAR PERIOD IN FRANKLINTON. 



The condition of things in Franklinton jnst prior to the out- 
break of the second war with Eng-land is well described in the 
following from the pen of Judge Gustavus Swan: "When I 
opened my office in Franklinton in 1811, there was neither 
church nor school house nor pleasure carriage in the county, nor 
was there a bridge over any stream within the compass of an 
hundred miles. . The roads at all seasons of the year were nearly 
impassable. Goods were imported, })rincipally from Philadel- 
phia in wagons; and our exports, consisting of horses, cattle and 
hogs, carried themselves to market. The mails were brought to 
us once a week on horseback, if not prevented by high water. I 
feel safe in saying that there was not in the county a chair for 
every two persons, nor a knife and fork for every four. The pro- 
portion of rough population was very large. With that class, 
to say that 'he would fight' was to praise a man; and it was 
against him, if he refused to drink. Aged persons and invalids, 
however, were respected and protected and could avoid drinking 
and fighting with impunity ; but even they could not safely inter- 
fere to interrupt a fight. There was one virtue, that of hospital- 
ity, which was not confined to any class." 

Franklinton was a straggling town of a few hundred people 
when the war of 1812 was not unexpectedly deelared. That 
year was an eventful one for the little town, for it at once marked 
the beginning of its greatest prosperity and the commencement 
of its decline. The war gave it a temporary importance; the 
laying out of Columbus as the capital of the state as surely meant 
the overshadowing of Franklinton and its loss of identity. Sing- 
ularly the formal declaration of war and the sale of lots in Co- 



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lunihus took place on the same day, June 18, 1812. While 
(Jovernor Meigs, of Ohio, was organizing three volunteer regi- 
ments to take the field in the impending war, Alexander Mc- 
J.aughlin, John Kerr, Lyne Starling and James Johnston were 
treating with the legislature, then sitting at Zanesville, for the 
location of Ohio's capital on their land on the east bank of the 
Scioto opposite Franklinton. A bill accepting their proposition 
was, after much wrangling, passed February 14, 1812, and on 
February 21, the name of Columbus was by joint resolution given 
to tlio ])rospective capital. The name is said to have been sug- 




THE OL.D STATE HOUSE AND OTHER BUILDINGS. 
IT. 3. Court House I State Offices | State House. 



gosted by Hon. Joseph Foos, one of Franklin county's first judges 
and at that time member of the senate for Franklin, Delaware 
and Madison counties. It is interesting to note that Representa- 
tive Abraham Edwards, of Montgomery county, proposed that 
the name Ohio City be given to the capital, and that his resolu- 
tion to that effect was defeated in the house by the close vote of 
yeas 19, nays 22. The first sale of lots in Columbus began, as 
advertised by the proprietors, June 18, and continued several 
days. Visiting purchasers lodged in the tavern at Franklin- 
ton and reached the place appointed for the sales by crossing the 

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river in canoes or at the ierry. Tlie lots sold were located mostly 
on Broad and High streets and hronght from $200 to $1000 
each. 

The conditions on which the capital was located at Columbus 
were in brief: Tliat Messrs. McLaughlin, Kerr, Starling and 
Johnston should at tlieir own expense lay out the town; should 
give to the state a square of ten acres on which they were to erect 
a state house and other offices, and a lot of ten acres on which they 
were to erect a penitentiary, all as should be directed by the 
legislature; in return for which the legislature should establish 
the seat of government at Columbus, beginning the first Monday 
in December, 1817, and continuing, there until May 1, 1840, 
and thereafter until otherwise provided by law. Aside from the 
four proprietors of the land, Lucas Sullivant and Joseph Foos 
were the prime movers in this enterprise. 

AVhile these men and their associates were celebrating their 
victory of peace Franklinton, Urbana and Dayton were resound- 
ing with the notes of war. The Third Ohio Volunteer regiment, 
commanded by Lewis Cass, assembled at Franklinton and pro- 
ceeded to Urbana, where it met the First and Second regiments, 
and the Fourth, which had participated in the battle of Tippe- 
canoe in the preceding autumn, when General Harrison defeated 
Tecumseh. From LTrbana the troops marched north under Hull, 
constructing block houses as they went, reaching Detroit August 
8, where they surrendered on the 16th to the British. The news 
of this remarkable capitulation was with indignation communi- 
cated to the people through a Freeman's Chronicle extra. 
It was feared that the surrender would encourage the Indians 
and lead them to attack the settlement, and to guard against sur- 
prise scouts were stationed to the north, from which direction an 
attack was apprehended. Settlers in outlying districts flocked 
to Franklinton and plans for fortifying the town were laid. 

In the emergency, Governor Meigs, of Ohio, and Governor 
Scott, of Kentucky, exerted themselves to the utmost to hurry 
more volunteers into the field. General William Henry Har- 
rison was put in command of the newly recruited troops and he 
immediately laid plans to recapture Detroit. Franklinton, be- 
cause of its location, was chosen as a rendezvous and depot of 



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supi)lies, and on Octobei- 25 Generals Hamson, Perkins and 
BciiU held there an important conference. The Freeman's 
Chronicle of October ^31, 1812, published at Franklinton, says: 
"Our town begins to assume quite a military appearance. Six 
or seven hundred troops are already here. Two companies of 
Pennsylvania troops are expected in a few days, and we look daily 
for the arrival of 100 Tnited States dragoons from Kentucky. 
The force to be coOected at this place will bo nearly three thou- 
sand. How long they will remain has not been ascertained." 

The same paper oi Xovember 17 notes the return of General 
Harrison from Delaware and his reception with the military 
honors due to his rank. The following day Governor Meigs ar- 
rived from Manetta, was saluted by Captain Cushing's company 
of artillery and later, accompanied by General Harrison and 
staff, reviewed all the troops at the public square. To intimidate 
the Indians who were threatening, General Harrison on the 18th 
inst., sent an expedition 600 or 700 strong against the Miami 
villages near the present site of Muncie, Ind. This force, under 
Colciuel Cani])bell, surjjrised the Indians December 17, and put 
them to liiglit. .Vnother and herccr battle occurred on the fol- 
lowing day with a similar result, the total loss to the white forces 
being eight killed and twenty -six wounded. Colonel Campbell 
then returned to Franklinton and his victory was announced in 
an order issued by General Harrison from his headquarters there. 
J ^'0 visions and live stock destined for the use of the army con- 
tinued to arrive at Franklinton and to be forwarded to Upper 
Sandusky, the final rendezvous and supply depot. General 
Harrison was here and there directing the campaign while the 
reinforcements and supplies were pouring north to and through 
Franklinton. He was in the north'ern part of the state when 
Winchester was surprised at Frenchtown south of Detroit Janu- 
ary 22, 1813, by General Proctor, and his force of about 850 
men killed or captured. This calamity but spurred Ohio and 
Kentucky to renewed eiforts. A draft was ordered and Gov- 
ernor ]\Icigs issued a proclamation calling for three-months' vol- 
unteers, two of the three divisions to rendezvous at Franklinton. 
The town was again all excitement and bustle with the ])repara- 
tions for retrievin"' the loss. Tli(> drafted men arrived and were 



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sent north, for the most part under the direction of Governor 
Meigs himself. From April 11 to May 9, General Harrison was 
at Fort Meigs, which he successfully defended against General 
Proctor. Eeturning thence to Franklinton, he met Governor 
Meigs, who with a large force of Ohio militia was pushing to the 
front. Among these Ohio troops were two companies of 
dragoons recruited in Franklin county, one by the call of Briga- 
dier General Joseph Foos; Captain Vance was the commander 
of the other. 

It having been decided to make no further effort to retake De- 
troit until the army could have the co-operation of Commodore 
Perry's naval force. General Harrison made a tour of inspection 
to the south. Returning June 6 ahead of the Twenty-fourth 
United States infantry, which had been recruited in Tennessee, 
he invited representatives of the friendly, but hitherto neutral, 
Indians to a conference. This conference was held June 21, 
1813, on the grounds of Lucas Sullivant, and is thus described 
in the Sullivant Family memorial: 

''The Delaware, Shawnee, Wyandot and Seneca tribes were 
represented by about 50 of the chiefs and warriors. General 
Harrison represented the government, and with him were his 
staff and a brilliant array of officers in full uniform. Behind 
was a detachment of soldiers. In his front were the Indians. 
All around were the inhabitants of the region, far and near, Avith 
many a mother and maid as interested spectators. The general 
began to speak in calm and measured tones, befitting the grave 
occasion, but an undefined oppression seemed to hold all in sus- 
pense, as, with silent and almost breathless attention, they 
awaited the result of the general's words, which seemed to fall 
on dull ears, as the Indians sat with unmoved countenances and 
smoked on in stolid silence. At length the persuasive voice of 
the great commander struck a responsive chord, and when Tarhe, 
or Crane, the great Wyandot chief, slowly rose to his feet, and 
standing for a moment in graceful and commanding attitude, 
made a brief reply, and then, with others, pressed forward to 
grasp the hand of General Harrison, in token, not only 
of amity, but in agreement to stand as a barrier on 
our exposed border, a terrible doubt and apprehension was 



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lifted from the hearts of all. Jubilant shouts rent the air, 
women wept for joy, and stalwart men thrilled with pleasure as 
they now thought of the assured safety of their wives and chil- 
dren from a cruel and stealthy foe, and prepared at once, with 
cheerful alacrity, to go forth to the impending battles." 

The Freeman's Chronicle prints the following account of Gen- 
eral Harrison's speech to the Indians: "The general promised 
to let the several tribes know when he should want their services, 
and further cautioned them that all who went with them must 
conform to his method of warfare, not to kill or injure old men, 
women, children or prisoners; that by this means we should be 
able to ascertain whether the British tell the tiTith when they 
say that they are not able to prevent Indians from such acts of 
horrid cruelty; foi, if the Indians under him. (General H.) would 
obey his conmiands and would refrain from acts of barbarism, it 
would be very evident that the hostile Indians could be as easily 
restrained by their commanders. The general then inforaied 
the chiefs of the agreement made by Proctor to deliver him to 
Tecumseh in case the British succeeded in taking Fort Meigs; 
and promised them that if he should be successful, he would de- 
liver Proctor into their hands on condition that they would do 
him no other harm than to put a petticoat on him, for," said he, 
"none but a coward or a squaw would kill a prisoner." 

A few days before this important and happily concluded con- 
ference there was a harrowing event at Franklinton. It was the 
military trial and shooting of a soldier for desertion and threat- 
ening the life of his captain. The Freeman's Chronicle tells of 
the incident: 

"Awful Scene — A man named William Fish, a private in 
Captain Hopkins' company of U. S. Light Dragoons, was shot at 
this place on Saturday last for the crime of desertion and threat- 
ening the life of his captain. We never before witnessed so hor- 
rible a spectacle; and cannot, in justice to our feelings, attempt 
a description of it. Three other privates, who were condemned 
to death by the same court martial, were pardoned by General 
Harrison. The last who was pardoned had been previously con- 
ducted to his coffin, and the cap placed over his eyes, in which 
situation he remained until Fish was shot; his reprieve was then 
read." 



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Jiily was a busy iiiontli in Franklinton. Alann followed 
alarm and tlie militia was increased hy another call. On July 
30, the Freeman's Chronicle said: "The militia are rushing 
from all quarters of the state. Thousands are already in advance 
of this place and thousands are on the march to the rear. It is 
impossible to ascertain the number of troops assembled or as- 
sembling throughout the state. Between six and seven thousand 
would be a moderate calculation. Even his Excellency, the 
Governor, who arrived here three or four days ago and has since 
been engaged day and night in the organization of the militia, is 
still ignorant of what number of troops are in motion through 
the state." But there was no fichting for the volunteers; they 
were called to meet what seemed to be an emergency, and as the 
latter did not appear they were sent home again, much to their 
disgust. They wanted to drive the invaders out of Ohio, but 
vhere was a purpose to use the United States regiilar troops as far 
&s possible, and so the militia came complainingly back through 
Franklinton. However at every call they continued to respond 
until the glad news came of Perry's victory on Lake Erie Sep- 
tember 10, the capture of Maiden by Harrison's army on the 
28th and the defeat of Proctor and Tecumseh by the same army 
on the Thames river, October 5. That practically ended the 
war in Ohio, the remainder of the work being precautionary 
merely. To the end of the war, Franklinton continued to be an 
important military station and point of distribution for both 
troops and supplies. Its armory, superintended by William C. 
Lyman, repaired muskets and supplied ammunition. The Ken- 
tucky troops, under the command of Governor Shelby, were en- 
camped on the premises of Mr. Sullivant, and his house was the 
welcome resort of the officers and men, many of whom were per- 
sonal friends of himself and wife. She was a ministering spirit 
to the sick soldiers, in camp and hospital, supplying their wants 
from her own table and stores. In 1813, a malignant and con- 
tagious typhus,, or cold plague, as it was called, broke out in 
camp, and she contrticted the disease, of which she died April 28, 
of that year. 

Mrs. Sullivant was very much respected and beloved by all 
who knew liei-, and many an immigrant, in the early settlement 



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(if tlie country, liad cause to bless her, for, to tlie poor and needy, 
the sick or afflicted, she was indeed a "Lady Bountiful," and the 
memory of her gentle manners, her good deeds and abounding 
charities long survived her. 

]\Ioney was plentv while the war of 1812 lasted; the limited 
sujiply of produce found ready sale at good prices, to the purvey- 
ors of the Northwestern army. The erection of public buildings 
later cn^ated a great demand for labor. After the war came a 
reaction. Wages were i)aid excdusively in trade and all business 




BLACKSMITH SHOP WHERE GEN. HARRISON HAD HIS HORSES SHOD ; 
STILT, STANDING CORNER BROAD AND GIFT STREETS. 

degenerated into mci'e barter. Whisky was the standard of 
values, and it was but offered and received in purchases and the 
payment of debts. All the stores sold it, along with dry goods, 
groceries and hardware, and its use was almost universal. The 
following letter written by Henry Brown, a Franklinton mer- 
chant during that period, to John W. Waddle, father of Angus 
Waddle, of Columbus, throws some additional light on trade and 
the manner in which the war affected it. Mr. Brown was in 
Philadelphia, evidently on a buying expedition, when he wrote 
under date of October 7, 1813; 



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"I have just received your favor of the 25tli inst., enclosing 
check for $500, which shall be appropriated to your use. Your 
proposition of sending goods to Maiden I think well of; i. e., after 
we get possession of it; provided a proper person can be had to 
conduct the business, which I apprehend there will be some diffi- 
culty in procuring. I will bring on the articles which I suppose 
necessary for that market. I started the greater part of the goods 
from the 21st to 25th last month; your goods, with the exception 
of groceries and shoes, are packed with mine. I loaded one 
wagon, the receipt of which I forwarded Dr. Goodale direct to 
Franklinton at $Y.50 per cwt., for you and Goodale, with gro- 
ceries. 

"I am now purchasing goods for Chillicothe in partnershii) 
with Mr. Amaziah Davidson; the business will in future be con- 
ducted under the firm of Waddle & Davidson. Goods are now 
enormously high and rising daily. They have rise^i 25 per cent, 
since I came to the city. I have no doubt the goods I first pur- 
chased would bring me that advance now; coffee, 28 cents; Y. H. 
tea, $2.25; Hyson skin, $1.50; Imperial, $3.00; lump sugar, 82c; 
loaf, 34c ; flannel blankets and coarse cloths more than 400 per 
cent, on the sterling cost; three-point blankets, $8.25 per pair; 
3 1-2 point, $10; there is no coarse cloth to be had imder $2.50, 
such as we formerly purchased at $1.40. Loaf sugar is ex- 
pected to be 50 cents here before spring if war continues. Mus- 
lin and India goods generally very much advanced. Calicoes 
sold today at auction at 80 cents by the package." 



CHAPTER IX. 



AFTER THE WAR. 



Columbus was incorporated as a borough in 1816. The 
'orig'ht prospects of the new town inspired its people with a 
])rido which seems to have been resented by the inhabitants in 
Franklinton. A union of the two towns was proposed but was 
stoutly and successfully resisted by the Franklintonians. Fol- 
lowing is a copy of a bill which was drafted to that end : 

"Be it enacted, etc., that so much of the township of Franklin 
in the county of Franklin as is included within the limits of the 
town plat of Franklinton, together with the ground over which 
any road or roads either now established or which shall be liere- 
after established shall pass between said town of Franklinton 
aiul the borough of Columbus, shall be and the same is hereby 
annexed to and made a part of the said the borough of Columbus, 
to be known and designated by the name of the Franklinton ward 
of Columbus. 

"Second — Be it further enacted, that all rights and privileges 
granted by the statute passed — or by the amendments thereto — 
granting corporate powers to the borough of Columbus, shall be 
enjoyed in the Franklinton ward of Columbus in as full a manner 
as if said ward had been originally included in the limits of the 
said borough of Columbus. 

"Third — Be it further enacted that the amount of all taxes to 
be levied within the said Franklinton ward of Columbus shall be 
expended within said ward, and it is hereby made the duty of the 
corporation in levying taxes, to fix the ratio according to the real 
interest of the ward for which the said tax is to be expended, 
anything in the said act of incorporation to the contrary not- 
withstanding. 



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"And provided always that nothing in this act contained shaP 
in any way or manner interfere with the present location of the 
seat of justice, or the rights and privileges reserved by the pro- 
prietor of sji.id town in his record of the plat thereof." 

It seems that snch a proposition must actually have been sub- 
mitted to the General Assembly of the state then in session in 
Columbus, for under date of only 18 months subsequent to the 
incorporation of C^olumbus, there is found a memorial prepared 
by the people of Franklinton praying the legislature to take no 
cognizance of the proposition to incorporate Franklinton as the 
Franklinton ward of Columbus. The memorial is somewhat 
unique in character and it is herewith submitted: 

"Franklinton, 0., December, 1817. 

''To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives, 
Kow Sitting in General Assembly, of the State of Ohio: 

"We, the undersigned memorialists, citizens of the town of 
Franklinton, having observed a notice in the newspapers printed 
at Columbus, that a petition would be presented to the legis- 
lature of Ohio at their present session praying for the incorpora- 
tion of Columbus and Franklinton, including the intermediate 
ground, we, therefore, by this our memorial, do remonstrate and 
solemnly declare our most cordial disapprobation against being 
incorporated or any part of our property being included in any 
incorporation whatever, because we deem it material to our in- 
terests to remain as we now are unincorporated. The most of us, 
whose names are hereunto subscribed as your memorialists, are 
dependent on agricultural pursuits for the support of ourselves 
and families, others are pursuing mechanical or such other occu- 
pation in Franklinton as we deem our interest. 

"In Franklinton we have extensive and pleasant commons 
which we now enjoy with all the privileges and advantages that 
result from a town or country residence. We have now the ad- 
vantage of raising stock for the support of our families. We do 
harmoniouslv and mutually enjoy the many advantages resulting 
from our situation much better and more to our wishes than we 
should do if we were involved in the discord, feuds and party 
factions that would ensue under incorporation. For we are well 



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awaro of tlio many cuntcntions and differences of opinion which 
wonld naturally arise from the different views and clashing in- 
terests of two towns. Many of us were the first and early ad- 
venturers to Franklinton whilst the surrounding country was an 
unl)roken forest. We have cast our lots in Franklinton and we 
wish to remain unincoi-yjorated until we <leem it to our interests 
to apply for an act of incorporation entirely separate and distinct 
from Columbus. 

"We, therefore, pray that no act of incorporation to include 
us or any ))art of our proi)erty west of the Scioto may be passed 




FIRST RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER THE SCIOTO. 

by your honorable body, and we, your memorialists, as in duty 
bound, do pray, etc." 

That was signed by Lucas Sullivant, Edward Pinnix, Joseph 
Gorton, Ilezekiah Gorton, John Stirwalt, Ephraim Fisher, John 
J. Collins, William Hums, Francis Stewart, Elijah Thomas, 
John Foley, (Cornelius Clossou, AVilliam Foley, John Juresgood, 
Samuel Shepmor, George Skidmore, William Fleming, Joseph 
Foos, David Deardurf, William Stirwalt, William Migdoii, Sam- 
uel Deardurf, John Brown, William Domigaj, John li. Grea- 
tonn, Jencks Wait, Eben Domigan, Edward Green, John Cour- 
sen, Lewis AVilliams, John John, Jeremiah Kews, John Quinn, 
Archibald B. Washburn, Jacob Overdier, Elias Pegg, John 
Moore, J. A. IMcDoAvell and some others. 



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Many of the memorialists were of the original pioneers and 
there are now many families in Columbus who will recognize in 
the list given above names of their ancestors. Whether the 
legislature took any action in this matter is not known, but it ia 
certain that the attempt to add- Franklinton to Columbus failed 
signally. Franklinton remained the seat of justice until 1824, 
when the importance of Columbus had grown to so high a de- 
gree that the modest pioneer settlement across the river could 
no longer compete with its powerful neighbor, and so gave way 
and surrendered its chief claim to prominence. 

The Scioto river was the early highway of commerce be- 
tween Franklinton and the east and south. Goods purchased 
at Pittsburg for the Franklinton settlers reached their destina- 
tion via the Ohio and the Scioto rivers. Strange as it may seem, 
ISTew Orleans was in the early days tne most natural market for 
franklinton produce. Lyne Starling is said to have been the 
first to build barges, load them with produce and send them to 
^NTew Orleans. That was in 1810-11. Lucas Sullivant's boats 
had prior to that navigated the Scioto and a number of barges 
had been constructed to facilitate the crossing of the river which 
at this jDoint was for the most part too deep to be forded. The 
first bridge connecting Columbus and Franklinton was built in 
1816 by Lucas Sullivant; Says Martin's History of Franklin 
county : 

"February 15, 1815, the general assembly passed an act au- 
thorizing Lucas Sullivant and his associates 'if any there be,' to 
build a bridge across Broad street, and authorized collection of 
the following rates of toll: For foot passengers, three cents; 
for evely horse, mule or ass one year old or upwards, four cents; 
for each horse and rider, twelve and one-half cents; for every 
chaise, riding-chair, gig, cart or other two-wheeled carriage, with 
two horses or two oxen and driver, thirty-seven and one-half 
cents; for the same and one horse and driver, eighteen and three- 
fourths cents; for every coach, chariot or other pleasurable car- 
riage, with four wheels and driver, drawn by four horses, seventy- 
five cents; for the same carriage and driver, drawn by two horses, 
fifty cents; for every wagon with two horses or oxen and driver, 
thirty-seven and a half cents; and for each horse or oxen in ad- 



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(lition, six and a fourth conts; for every horse, mule or ass young- 
er than one year old, two eents; for every head of meat cattle, 
six months old or upwards, two cents; for every head of cattle 
younger than six months old, and for every head of sheep or 
hogs, one-half cent. 

"All public mails and all troops and artillery of the United 
States were passed free. The franchise was granted for a term 
of 60 years, but the right was reserved to change the rates of toll 
after 1831. 

"Pursuant to this charter, ]\Ir. Sullivant erected a roofless 
wooden toll bridge. As its direction formed a right angle with 
the course of the river, it touched the west bank at a point several 
rods below the ford, making necessarv the opening of a new road 
across the fields of Franklinton. After the lapse of eight or ten 
years this bridge became infirm and in 1826 was replaced by 
another, with its western terminus at the original landing. Like 
its predecessor, it was destitute of roof or cover." 

In the division of the Lucas Sullivant estate, this bridge fell 
to the auare of Joseph Sullivant, whose franchise was purchased 
early in the thirties for $10,000, of which amount $2000 was 
contributed by the county and the remainder by private indi- 
viduals, with the understanding that a substantial free bridge 
would be erected as a part of the national road. The bridge 
erected in accordance with this agreement was a covered wooden 
to the share of Joseph Sullivant, whose franchise was purchased 
e^ch side for pedestrians. When this bridge was finished there 
was some question as to its strength, but while the constructing 
engineers were still here the structure was put to a test that settled 
the question definitely in the affiiinative. A drove of 700 cattle 
belonging to Richard Cowling, of London, was driren into 
Franklinton enroute to an eastern market. Cowling feared the 
bridge and was prepared to swim his cattle across when one of the 
engineers assured him of the safety of the bridge and told him that 
tlie government would repay him for any loss resulting from the 
breaking down of the bridge. Cowling therefore decided to use 
the bridge and drove his cattle upon it. The animals filled the 
bridge from side to side and from end to end. There was a 
creaking and a distince settling of the structure, but nothing 
more. The bridge stoo<;l the test and the delighted Cowling 



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invited tlie crowd of people who gathered to see the destruction 
of the structure to come across and take p drink with him at 
Zijllinger's. This bridge stood until rejdaced h\ the present iron 
bridge in 1882-3. 

The Scioto, wliose overflowing made the fertility of the soil 
and aided in the production of the fine crops of maize which in 
1795 attracted the attention of Lucas Sullivant, has also causec^ 
nnich damage. The first floo<l of which there is record inundated 
the land on wliich Lucas Sullivant had decided to build his town, 
That was in 1798. There were other great freshets in 1834, 
1847, 1852, 1859, 1860, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1881 and 
1883. The lowness of the ground offered to the waters a ready 
sacrifice of the property of various kinds that was being accum- 
nlated in the gro^ving town, and even now there is not entire im- 
munity from flood. 

Franklinton's burying-ground was early located on the south 
bank of the Scioto, near where the waters of the Scioto and Olen- 
tangy meet. The church which Lucas Sullivant built was situ- 
ated in front and the cemetery stretched away at the rear. Then 
it was unquestionably a beautiful site, but now it is overgrown 
and neglected, hemmed in by unimproved streets, while railroad 
tracks on the north and south hold it in close and noisy embrace. 
Over the tract which at present covers about three acres, toppling 
headstones, many of them hidden by the rank shrubbery, tell 
where many of the pioneers were buried. Doubtless the remains 
of many of the dead still repose there, but in many cases the re- 
mains have been removed to Greenlawn, which was opened for 
use in 1849. Almost in the center of this now deserted tract 
stands a gravestone "Erected to the Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth 
Goodale, consort of Major Nathan Groodale, who was born at 
Rutland, Massachusetts, April, 1743, and died January 24, 1809, 
having lived 65 years, 9 months and 24 days." It is an unpre- 
tentious stone, and the lettering is partly efi^aced. A hackberry 
tree has grown up so closely at its side as to push the stone from a 
perpendicular position; it has also so grown around the stone as 
to render the removal of the latter difficult. This stone particu- 
larly holds the attention because it once marked the resting place 
of the mother of Dr. Lincoln Goodale, the donor of the beautiful 



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park north of tho Union station. Her remains were long since 
removed by loving hands to (Jreenlawn. 

On the tombstones which snrround this one of Mrs. Goodale, 
there are many interesting inscriptions. Here is the tombstone 
of John Ball, who died March 10, 1818, and is described as "an 
ablo physician and an honest man." Of Dr. Alden Gage, who 
died in 1821, the stone tells us that "he was an able physician, a 
careful and tender parent and a kind and indulgent husband." 

On another stone it is recorded of Henrietta O'Harra, who 
died February 20, 1824, that 

She lived a life to be admired 
And died a death to be desired. 

For Isabella O'Harra, who passed away in 1844, this sentiment 
is chiseled in stone: 

Come, children dear, and view my grave, 
Since all your care could not me save; 
And, while my flesh lies here to rot. 
Let not this warning be forgot. 

This rather gruesome epitaph seems to have been a favorite, 
for it occurs on several other stones, varied to suit the circum- 
stances, the word, ''father" or "mother," or "husband" being 
substituted for "children" in the first line of the stanza. 

Angelina Vanpelt, who died i^Tovember 17, 1835, is made by 
the writer in stone to say to all who visit the grave: 

All ye strangers who pass by, 
As you are now, so once was I, 
As I am now, so you must be, 
Prepare for death and follow me. 

T'pon another stone there is this inscription, which though 
doubtless truthful at one time, is now belied by all the surround- 
ings: 

In the cold ground but not forgot. 

Thy lifeless body lies, 

But in thy widow's hapless th't 

Thv virtue never dies. 



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The heart that directed that inscription has itself long since 
ceased to beat and is absolved of all blame for the neglect into 
which the grave has fallen. 

Few of the names upon the stones are familiar. Here are some 
of them: Major John Grate, Jinks Wait, Polly Sandusky, John 
Perrin, Polly Perrin, Margaret Deardurf, David Deardurf, 
Horace Wolcott, Lucy Wolcott, J. E. Rudisell, James Gilmore, 
Jane Wigden, Lewis Risley, William Brown, William Robert 
Megowen, Francis Moorehead, Jane Parks, Kezia Brotherton, 
Jane M. D'Lashmutt, Rebecca Smith and Henry Sly. A name 
which seems familiar is that of John A, McDowell, who, it is 
thought, may have been an uncle of General Irvin McDowell; 
another is that of Andrew Reid McDowell, who was also prob- 
ably a relative. 

Here, utterly disregarded, lie the remains of many of those 
who made Franklinton and of some who in one way or another 
contributed to the happiness and prosperity of Columbus. No 
one can look upon these graven without thinking how soon man 
is forgotten. The headstones stand to give testimony that the per- 
sons whose names are carved thereon lived and were loved, for 
the most part not more than 50 years ago, but beyond that silent 
and decaying testimony there is nothing. 

In 1824, Columbus had so far outstripped the older town of 
Franklinton in population and prospects that the seat of county 
government was transferred to the former, which then had a pop- 
ulation of about 2000. The Common Pleas Court was at that 
date thus composed: Gustavus Swan, president; Edward Liv- 
ingston, Samuel G. Flenniken and A. Buttles, associates. A. I. 
McDowell was county clerk and Robert Brotherton sheriff. 
Franklinton continued its separate and somewhat disorganized 
existence under township government, relying in an emergency 
upon Columbus for aid. It was largely a town of farmers and 
laborers who worked Mr. Sullivant's extensive fields or toiled in 
the stone quarries. The raising and curing of broom corn was 
for some years a thriving industry conducted by P. 1^. White and 
C. L. Eaton. The town and township also had a number of 
milling establishments, some of which dated from the early days 



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of the settlement. Its lai-ge aiid level fields also attracted men 
uf sporting proclivities and the race courses were for many years 
within them. 

The list of Franklin township justices from 1803 to 1858 are 
thus given by Martin: 

1803 — Zachariah Stephen and James Marshal. 

1806 — James Marshal and Arthur O'Harra, to succeed Ste- 
})hen. 

1808— Samuel White. 

1809 — James Marshal and Arthur O'Harra. 

1811 — Samuel White, re-elected. 

1812 — Marshal and O'Harra, re-elected, and Joseph Grate. 

1814 — Nicholas Goeches, vice White, and Joseph Gorton and 
Jacob Kellar, vice O'Harra, resigned, and Marshal, removed. 

1815 — Joseph Grate, re-elected. 

1817 — Gorton and Kellar, re-elected. 

1820 — Robert W. Riley, vice Grate, and Gorton and Ivellar, 
re-elected; same year Jacob Grubb, vice Gorton, deceased. 

1822 — Joseph Badger, vice Kellar, resigned. 

1823— Jacob Grubb and R. W. Riley, re-elected. 

1825 — Reuben Golliday, vice Badger. 

182G — Grubb, re-elected, and Stewart White, vice Riley. 

1828— William Lusk, vice Golliday. 

1829— Grubb and White, re-elected. 

1831 — William Lusk, re-elected. 

1832 — Grubb, re-elected, and James Graham, vice White. 

1834 — Stewart White, vice Lusk. 

1835 — Grubb and Graham, re-elected. 

1837 — Samuel Deardurf, vice Graham, resigned, and Stewart 
White, re-elected. 

1838 — Jacob Fisher, vice Grubb. 

1840 — William Caldwell, vice Deardurf, and Adam Alkire, 
vice White. 

1841 — William Henderson, vice Fisher. 

1843 — Caldwell and Alkire, re-elected. 

1844 — Henderson, re-elected. 

184G — Lemuel Frizzell and Jacob White, vice Caldwell and 
Alkire. 

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1847 — Bartley Boyd, vice Ilendersoii. 

1849 — Frizzell, re-elected; Robert King, vice Boyd, resigned, 
and Benjamin Overniire, vice White. 

1852 — Adam Alkire, vice Overmire, and Robert King, re- 
elected. 

1853 — Frizzell, re-elected. 

1854 — Arthur O'Harra, vice King, resigned, and Bazil Rid- 
dell, vice Frizzell. 

1855 — Jesse Alkire, vice Adam Alkire. 

185C — John A. Kellar, vice Riddell, resigned. 

1857 — W. B. Preston, vice O'Harra. 

1858 — Arthur O'Harra, vice Kellar, resigned, and Jacob 
White, vice Alkire, removed. 

In 1870 Franklinton was annexed to the city of Columbus by 
ordinance approved by the county commissioners and passed by 
council. The area annexed was 4052 acres, comprising Franklin- 
ton, Birmingham, a settlement west of Goodale park, and con- 
siderable land south and east. The annexation was due not to 
Franklinton's decline, but rather to its growth, which made im- 
provements and better protection necessary. The subsequent 
career of the town is thus characterized in a recent newspaper 
article by Mr. J. L. Rodgers, great grandson of Lucas Sullivant: 

"After its incorporation in the city of Columbus the spirit of 
improvement became prevalent. Its area was increased, new 
buildings were started, transportation facilities were afforded and 
in all ways it assumed the features of a modern city. Columbus 
for many years saj)ped the strength of Franklinton, but it is not 
doing so now. The West Side is having an evolutionary period 
of its own, and it can be said with truth that during the last de- 
cade the change has been more remarkable than that of any other 
period of its history, save only the beginning which saw the native 
forest trees and the primeval prairie give way to the advance of 
the pioneer. The Franklinton of old has become the sturdy, 
progressive, active and wide-awake West Columbus of today. 
Treating it as a municipality it can be said that others have grown 
faster and have become greater than Franklinton — West Co- 
lumbus — but it cannot be said of any that a better population has 



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been secured or that the original beginning of what is now West 
Cohnnbns lacks the elements which can well be deemed causes for 
pride in a centennial celebration. Tlie old days of Franklinton 
seem at this time to be so far removed in the misty past as to pre- 
sent no pnjper idea of their nature to one who endeavors to fancy 
what the pioneer times must have been. In this era of broad, 
well-paved streets and of facilities for quick communication, not 
only with all parts of the city but with all parts of the state, it is 
hartl to realize that the days of canoes, of packhorses and saddle 
animals on forest trails, of mud roads, of pikes over which queer 
stage coaches passed, of the National road with its quaint ve- 
hicles, of the canal and even the old-fashioned city streets, have 
existed. 

''Xo structure of man upon land wdiich is now within the cor- 
porate lindts of Columbus can approach in antiquity some of the 
dwellings which now are landmarks of the Franklinton of old. 
Theirs is a history wdiich includes existence in times now so re- 
mote that no one living here today can speak of a past beyond 
them." 

At the time of the annexation to the city of the district west of 
the river, the original territory of Franklinton had a considerable 
population, and between it and the river another hamlet or sub- 
urb, long called Middletown, had grown up. The great growth 
of that section of the city, however, has been since annexation, 
the population now aggregating about 12,000. Franklinton, 
as such, is departed, but the memory of its pioneers who struggled 
bravely on amid the hardships of a forest settlement is cherished 
as one of the glories of Columbus. 



CHAPTER X. 



SOME NOTABLE PIONEERS. 



First and foremost among the Franklinton pioneers was Lucas 
Sullivant, founder and until his death promoter of every enter- 
prise, commercial, governmental, educational or religious. His 
influence pervaded and his spirit dominated all. He was born 
September, 1765, in Mecklenburg county, Va., and when about 
16 years of age, volunteered and went with an expedition des- 
tined for Augusta and other then western counties, which were 
threatened with an Indian invasion. His courage and good con- 
duct were such as to receive the public commendation of his com- 
manding officer. 

His mother having died, he was left to buffet the world alone, 
and make his own way. But his energy, industry and good char- 
acter secured for him good friends and considerate advisers, 
among whom was Colonel William Starling, afterward his father- 
in-law. He freely used his little patrimony in acquiring a better 
and more liberal education, and having mastered the science and 
practice of surveying, he adopted it for a profession, and, having 
established a reputation for enterprise and capacity, found plenty 
of employment in the neighboring counties. 

He removed from Virginia, and settled in Paris, Bourbon 
county, Ky., where he resided for several years, when he went to 
Ohio and named a creek in the western part of the present Frank- 
lin county, now known as Little Darby creek. Mr. Sullivant was 
appointed a deput}^ surveyor of that part of the reservation in 
Ohio held by Virginia after that state had deeded a large lot of 
land to the union, and he was one of the bold and hardy ad- 



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venturers wh(^, at a very early day, penetrated the unbroken 
wilderness which then covered the present State of Ohio. This 
land district was opened in 1787, and sf>on afterward the survey- 
ors, ^[assie, Sullivant, Beasley, O'Bannon, McArthur and others 
commenced their adventurous and dangerous career betwixt the 
Scioto and Miami rivers, in the "Virginia Military Land District." 

After several unsuccet^sful attempts, being driven back by In- 
dians many times, Mr. Sullivant organized a large party at Lime- 
stone, now Maysville, Ky., and l)id farewell to his friends. He 
arrived in due time u])on the Scioto and commenced his operations 
m t_e territory of the present Franklin county. His party con- 
sisted of about twenty men, including surveyors, chain carriers, 
markers, huntsman, scouts and pack-horse men, with pack horses, 
caiTying blankets, provisions, ages, kettles and camp equipage. 

Of provisions they carried only some flour, bacon and salt, de- 
pending for their chief subsistence upon the skill of the hunters, 
and the abundance of wild game, such as bears, deer and turkeys. 
When scarce of flour they substituted for their bread the dry 
breast meat of the wild turkey, or the lean flesh of the deer, or 
jerked venison, as it was called, from the peculiar mode of its 
preparation; and the fat and greasy bear meat furnished a whole- 
some and palatable substitute for bacon. Many times, scarce of 
provisions, they were hungry and sore tried for a full meal, espe- 
cially when in the vicinity of parties of Indians liable to be at- 
tracted by the ring of the hunter's rifle. 

How this expedition resulted in the locating and founding of 
Franklinton has already been told and so closely is Mr. Sullivant's 
subsequent career connected with the development of Franklin- 
ton, already related, that little remains to be told of his life 
history. From 1801, when he came with his bride to make 
Franklinton his permanent home, to 1823, when he died, in the 
58th year of his age, he was the first man in Franklinton. His 
remarkable energy continued with him to the end, his last task 
being the constmction of a large grist mill and dam across the 
Scioto. He lived to see this enterprise finished and died in Au- 
gust, 182.'^, just twenty-six years after he had laid out the town. 

The following interesting tribute to him as a husband and 



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fatlier was written by One of his descendants and contributed to 
the columns of The Press at the time of the centennial cele- 
bration : 

"Much has been said of Lucas Sullivant, the hardy pioneer, the 
man of force and courage ; but the tender side of his nature seems 
to have passed unnoticed. 

"For whom was he so anxious to wrest a home from the wilder- 
ness? For whom did he brave the dangers of Indian torture and 
face hardships and exposure? For Avhom did he build the first 
brick house of the county — at what effort in those early times may 
perhaps be imagined? For whom, indeed, but the fair, deli- 
cately-nurtured young girl in Kentucky who eagerly waited for 
his infrequent letters forwarded by some chance traveller, and 
who afterward gladly exchanged the luxuries and abundance of 
a home where she was shielded and protected from every adverse 
wind, for the hardships and inconveniences of a life on the fron- 
tier with her brave husband. For her he built the first brick 
church of the settlement, and presented it to the little struggling 
congregation of pioneers, of which she was a member, that she 
might have the solace of the religious services she loved. For her 
the best physician procurable in Chillicothe was induced to ride 
fifty miles on horseback and tarry three weeks at her house that 
he might be present at the advent of her first-born, at what ex- 
pense to her husband we have no record, but it was doubtless con- 
siderable for those times. Can we not fancy how to her, accus- 
tomed to the security of civilization, the hooting of the owls, the 
baying of the wolf and the scream of the panther, through the 
darkness of the night, must have sent a thrill of loneliness and 
terror, even with the strong arm of her husband nearby? And 
how did this delicate woman endure the absence of that protect- 
ing arm when its owner was called to other fields of action? One 
of her sons, though but a child of four at the time, remembered all 
his life the anxiety of her tone and the tremor of her form when 
she drew him tenderly to her one night, during her husband's 
temporary absence, and pressed him in a close embrace, saying 
that she feared from the excited barking of the brindled mastiff 
(their trusty scout and protector, who had taken his post under 



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her window, as though she were the most important object of de- 
fense), that the Indians were prowling about, her first thought 
evidently being for her baby. 

"Xceessarily her own delicate hands performed many of the 
laborious household duties assigned to slaves in her father's 
house. Her l)rother, Lyne Starling, while on a visit to her, once 
wrote home that he thought her health was much impaired by 
exjjosure and work owing to the 'difficulty of procuring hirelings 
in this countrv.' All difficulties and trials she cheerfully bore 




OFFICE OF JOSEPH 8ULLIVANT, ERECTED 1825— STILL STANDING. 

for dear love's sake, while her devoted husband spared neither 
pains nor expense within his means to procure her possible com- 
forts and indulgenges in acknowledgment of her sacrifices. 

''Her end was characteristic of her courageous and unselfish 
life, for her death was caused by exertion and exposure while 
nursing and aiding the soldiers encamped on her husband's prem- 
ises in the war of 1812, during which the little brick church, her 
husband's gift, was appropriated for a gTanary and storehouse 
for the quartermaster's department. 



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"Her husband did not survive her many years, when he, too, 
was laid to rest amid the scenes of his early struggles and hard- 
ships. A welcome rest it doubtless was, for she who made life 
dear in spite of dangers and perplexities, such as this generation 
can never fully comprehend, was no longer near to cheer and en- 
courage hirn to fresh endeavor, and the chief object of his efforts 
was gone. But in the lonely interval before h*^ joined her, he at 
least had the consolation of knowing — 

" 'That Life is ever lord of Death 
And Love can never lose its own.' '' 

To Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Sullivant were born three sons, all of 
whom survived him and added to the glory of the Sullivant name. 
A daughter, born in 1812, named Sarah, died aged 2 years. The 
sons were, in the order of their birth: William S., Michael L. 
and Joseph. William Sullivant early turned his attention to the 
study of the flora of central Ohio and became the most eminent 
American bryologist of his time. His name was given to a num- 
ber of hitherto undiscovered species of flora and his work on 
mosses was such as to make his name honorably remembered 
wherever mosses are studied. He died in 1873. 

Michael Sullivant became a stock raiser and farmer on a 
gigantic scale. He was one of the originators of the Ohio Stock 
Importing Company and of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, 
and was twice the president of the latter body. In 1854, he sold 
out his Ohio holdings and moved to Illinois, where he cultivated 
tens of thousands of acres of land. It was a stupendous experi- 
ment which was watched with gi'eat interest, but which finally 
failed. He died in 1879. 

Joseph Sullivant interested himself in various public matters, 
literary, scientific and material education, agriculture, etc. He 
was one of the projectors of Greenlawn cemetery. He lived an 
honored life, dying in 1882. 

Lyne Starling, a brother of Mrs. Lucas Sullivant, was one of 
the most important of the pioneer figures. He was born in 
Mecklenburg county, Ya., in 1784, and came to rranklinton in 
1806. He succeeded Lucas Sullivant as clerk of the courts and 



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was a successful merchant and trader. Ho was the most promi- 
nent of the four oriiiinal proprietors of Columbus, and is supposed 
to know why two members of the legislature were absent on the 
dny that the vote was taken and Columbus won over Worthing- 
ton, as the future capital of the state. He was an eccentric, but 
wiii'iii-]icart('(l jiiid useful man. Starling Medical college, found- 
ed through his generosity, ])erpetuates his name. 

Dr. James Hoge, the first clergyman of Franklinton, did much 
to mould the character of the town. He was born at Moorefield, 




GKOVE ON CENTENNIAL GROUNDS. 



Va., in 1784, the son of a famous Presbyterian divine. He 
came with the First Presbyterian church from Franklinton to 
Columbus and retained the pastorate until 1858. He was a 
strong temperance advocate and an ardent abolitionist and as- 
sisted in the establishment of the State Deaf and Dumb and In- 
sane Asylums, and founder of the Ohio Bible Society. 

Dr. Samuel Parsons, father of the late Hon. George M. Par- 
sons, was a native of Reading, Conn., and came to Franklinton 
in 1811, where he immediately began the practice of his pro- 
fession. In 1810 he moved over to Columbus, where he con- 
tinued his practice until within a few years of his death. 



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Gustavus Swan was born in Sharon, N. H., in 1787, came west 
in 1810 and in 1811 opened a law office in Franklinton. He 
served in the war of 1812 and in 1814 moved to Columbus to 
continue the ]>ractice of his profession. 

John Kerr was born in Ireland in 1778, came to America early 
in the century and settled in Franklinton in 1810. He invested 
largely in land on the east bank of the Scioto and through the 
selection of that locality as the site of the capital, became very 
wealthy. 

Dr. Lincoln Goodale came with his recently widowed mother 
to Franklinton in 1805. As there was not much opportunity 
for the practice of his profession, he entered into mercantile 
pursuits, which he followed with success. He served as volun- 
teer in the war of 1812, served as assistant surgeon and was taken 
captive at the time of Hull's surrender and was exchanged at 
Cleveland. Like others, he invested largely in land and became 
wealthy. He gave to Columbus the beautiful park which bears 
his name. 

John Brickell, one of the very first white men to settle in 
Franklin county, bought about the beginning of the century a 
tract of land on a part of which the Ohio penitentiary now stands. 
There he Iniilt a cabin in which he lived until his death in 1844. 
He was born near Stewart's Crossing, Pa., in 1781, was captured 
by Lidians in 1791, came to Ohio with them and lived with them 
for four years in captivity. He always. wore. a suit of buckskin 
and moccasins, boasting in 1842 that he had never worn anything 
else on his feet and that they were never cold. 



CHAPTER XI. 



PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. 



The (•(■]('! >rati(»ii of the cc'iitcniiial brought out reminiscences 
galore, -.vhicli r.i-e deserving of preservation in more permanent 
innii than in the daily ])aj)ers to wliicli they were originally con- 
trihuud. In the Kv( ning Press of September 5, 1897, appeared 
the following: 

On the Harrisbnrg road, just beyond Green Lawn cemetery, 
there lives in the person of Mrs. Joel Searles, a representative of 
one of Franklinton's earliest and best known families. Born in 
181<), Mrs. Searles is today a handsome woman of 5 feet 9 inches 
in height, possessing a manner at once gracious and charming, and 
in conversation intinitely brighter and more entertaining than 
many a woman with half her burden of years. She protests that 
her memory is poor and that no one would be interested in any- 
thing she could tell of Franklinton, but in another breath will re- 
late an incident of the past that proves quite the contrary. 

Ker father, whose name was Brotherlin, came to Franklinton 
a? quite a young man and mamed there in 1815 Elizabeth Craw- 
ford, daughter of Dr. Crawford. They went to housekeeping in 
a brick house situated directly back of the court house, and there 
Mrs. Searles was born. Her father's factory, for the making of 
hats, adjoined the house, and Mrs. Searles remembers when her 
father used to go on horseback to Detroit for the purpose of buy- 
ing beaver and other fur's to be made into caps. 

According to Mrs. Searles' own account, she was a wayward 
child, who, when backs were turned, lost no opportunity of slip- 
ping through an open gate and making her way as fast as possible 
to her favorite spot — the court house. There she woiild spend 
hours in the company of a member of the court, whose name she 



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fails now to recall, but who was, and always will be to her, ''the 
man." This early tendency to truancy resulted in frequent pun- 
ishment, and Mrs. Searles tells, with a laugh and a twinkle in her 
eye, of the only one which for her held any terror. It was noth- 
ing less than a shower bath, but one whose arrangements were so 
l)rimitive as to be worthy of record. A tub would be brought, 
the young lady put in, and down upon her luckless head would 
come a shower of water poured by her mother through a colander. 
Even this mode of treatment for disobedience, however, finally 
ceased to be effective and for safe-keeping she was sent, at the age 
of four, to a private school in Franklinton, kept by Miss Maria 
Strong, Mrs. Searles still has among her cherished possessions a 
little slip of paper, called "Merit's Reward," which states, under 
a remarkable colored decoration of Liberty, the stars and stripes, 
E Pluribus Unum and various other artistic creations, that: 

"The bearer, Miss Ann Eliza Brotherlin, is worthy of praise fur 
her ijrogress in the art of reading and spelling. 

"MARIA STRONG, Preceptress. 

"Kov. Ist-May 5th, 1821." 

Few children at the age of five can boast of having gained such 
a prize, or if they did, of afterwards keeping it 76 years. 

iVmong the other recollections of her childhood, there stands 
prominently in Mrs. Searles' mind that of the large traveling- 
wagons, drawn by six strapping horses, the leaders adorned with 
jangling bells, that came from the east over the mountains, filled 
almost to overflowing, from the high wagon beds clear up to the 
bowed canvas covered lop. Pickled oysters put up in small kegs 
were delicacies eagerly sought for in the collection of things 
brought by these wagons, and Mrs. Searles remembers her father 
making strenuous efforts to obtain a keg for the crowning glory 
of a wedding supper he gave to a driver of one of the wagons — one 
Minealy — who, on his journey, stopped off in Franklinton long 
enough to pick up a bride. 

About the year 1822, the Brotherlin family moved into the 
Lucas Sullivant house, where they remained until 1827, when, 
Michael Sullivant, wishing to take possession, they moved over to 
Columbus. A letter is still extant written by Michael Sullivant 



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in 1827, in which he speaks of his engagement to Miss McDowell 
and his desire to have the Brotherlins move out in order to let 
him oeenpy the old homestead after his mamage. 

While speaking of marriages Mrs. Searles stated that Rev. 
-Mr. Hoge married herself, her sister, her mother, her grand- 
niotlior and her great graudniothcr. Rather a remarkable record 
for one man! But of this record, Mrs. Searles, in her younger 
day^, made the following conundrum : "How could any one man 
have married me, my younger sister, my mother, my grandmother 
and my great grandmother?" The answer was: "By officiating 




FIRST STORE BUILDIN(; IN FRANK LINTON, STILL STANDING. 

at the third wedding of my great grandmother and at the second 
of my grandmother." These weddings all occurred in Frank- 
linton and that of her great grandmother was to Dr. Robert Cul- 
bertson, whose name is found in a list of the thirteen original 
members of Franklinton's first church. 

In the summer of 1798, a few scattering settlements were made 
along Alum creek. Among those pioneers was a young man 
named Shaw, who located just south of where the Water Cure 
now stands. There, in a log cabin, was born Isabella Shaw, now 
the widow of Squire Matt Martin. Mrs. Martin remembers 



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having heard from her parents a great deal in connection with 
their first few years in what was then the western wilds; how, 
out of a very wilderness of forest was cleared a spot for the build- 
ing of their cabin; how, for many years, her father was obliged 
to go all the way to Chillicothe to get the wheat ground into flour 
and how during those trips, which occupied two days, her mother 
had to remain alone with her small children, Indians all around 
and the nearest neighbor a mile or more away. During her 
husband's absence on one of these occasions, Mrs. Shaw, one cold 
winter night, was horror stricken by the appearance at her door 
of a large party of Wyandot Indians. Obliged to let them in for 
fear of worse consequences, she concealed her. terror as best she 
eould, and prepared to give them what they wanted. This con- 
sisted of nothing more nor less than a shelter and a good fire for 
a general carouse. They were already half drunk, and had with 
them more liquor. A curious custom of the Indians upon such 
occasions as this was that one of the chiefs always remained sober 
in order to watch the others. But to a lone woman this protec- 
tion seemed slight, and Mrs. Martin says her mother became 
finally so thoroughly frightened that picking up her two infants 
and with a third clinging to her skirts, she escaped out the back 
door and fled through the darkness and snow to her nearest neigh- 
bor — a Mr. Reed. There she got a son of Mr. Reed to go back to 
her house and remain until the next morning, when the Indians 
departed, and she returned home. 

Mrs. Martin was not one of the children who took this midnight 
journey, for she was not born until 1819, but during her life time 
she has seen in this vicinity much of interest, and her recollections 
are keen and entertaining. She distinctly recalls the first bridge 
over the Scioto river at Broad street, and says it was made of 
slabs of trees with the hand railing held in place by studdings, 
and that the bridge itself was wide enough for the passage of two 
wagons. Mrs. Martin frequently crossed this bridge wdien as a 
child she made visits in Franklinton to her aunt, Mrs. Hunter, 
who lived in a log cabin of two rooms near Gift street. Accord- 
ing to Mrs. Martin this old bridge had for another passenger her 
late husband, for living near the river on the present site of the 



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Neil House, his boy friends were all in Franklinton and thither 
1r' wt'nt for many a sn(j\v hall tight and many a youthful prank. 

In June, 18J}'J, ^ir. and JVIrs. Martin were married by Rev. 
James Hoge, Franklinton's first minister, and a strange thing in 
regard to this wedding is that, of all the people present, Mrs. 
Martin is the only one now living. Mrs. Martin knew Mr. Hoge 
intimately, for he not only married her, but had also married her 
parents, had officiated at their funerals and married her older 
sister. She describes him as a tall, large framed man with promi- 
nent features and a loud, clear voice which he always raised in his 
favorite funeral hymn : "Hark, From Out the Tombs a Doleful 
Sound." This was invariably the first one given out by Mr. 
Iloge at a funeral, and a text which he often used also upon such 
occasions was, "Blessed Are They That Die in the Lord." 

Mrs. Margaret Fleming, second wife of Samuel Fleming, is still 
living on the West Side at the age of 89. Her husband was the 
son of William Fleming, one of the early settlers of Franklinton. 
Interviewed by an Evening Press reporter, she told the following 
interesting story : 

"I was born," she began, "in 1809 in Franklinton in a little 
brick house which stood on the banks of the river west of what is 
now known as Sandusky street, and near the old Franklinton 
cemetery. 

"My father, Edward Hopper, bought a farm of 100 acres in the 
country, eight miles south of Rome, and when I was a year old 
we moved out there. 

"The first night we stayed in the country there were many In- 
dians, and father and the rest of us moved back to town the next 
day and moved into a house where three families lived — I can't 
recall their names — and stayed there three weeks, but we went 
back to the country again to live. (I think the house is stiU stand- 
ing, but I am not certain of that. It was a frame.) 

"The night we went back to the coimtry, five young horses were 
in some underbrush, and they started running up to the house, 
snorting and neighing and father thought the Indians were try- 
ing to catch them, and he sat with his gun in his lap, and his dog 
beside him, and he said if God spared him he would go back to 



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Franklintoii, but mother said she would as soon be killed by the 
Indians as go back to town and starve, but father soon found that 
it was Hull's army and they were trying to catch the horses, for 
the men were all tired out. 

''I remember when a little girl of seeing 500 Indians encamped 
in my father's yard and the chief going around and giving each 
one a wine glass of whisky, and seeing the young Indians ride 
bareback as far as the run on father's farm. After that my 
father died, when I was thirteen years old, and my uncle was my 
guardian and I was brought to Franklinton to go to school, so the 
most of my life has been spent in Franklinton. In 1831 I was 
married to Samuel Fleming, son of William Fleming, one of the 
old settlers. The greater portion of my maiTied life has been 
spent here. July 4, 1822, I recall we had what we then thought 
was a grand celebration in Franklinton. The girls and boys 
marched out where the Mt. Carmel hospital now stands, and we 
had a great dinner of roast pig. The men dug a pit in the ground 
about three feet deep and made a fire in it. Then they put some 
iron bars over the pit, and an old colored woman we called 'Aunt 
Dinah,' roasted the pig for us. After dinner we had some great 
patriotic speeches by a number of men whose names I cannot re- 
member. Of those who attended that Fourth of July celebration 
seventy-five years ago, I am the only one yet living." 

Mrs. Fleming has two daughters and one son yet living, be- 
sides sixteen grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren. 

In 1800, says a writer in the Evening Press, Daniel Woodbury 
was granted 4000 acres of land, the southwest quarter section of 
what is now Plain township. Two years later, he sold the land 
to John Huffman, of Washington county, Pa., at $1 an acre and 
took his pay in whisky at $1 a gallon. 

Among the early settlers at Rocky Fork, as the neighborhood 
was called, who by lease or inheritance still hold down the old 
lands, were the following: Joseph Scott, who for years dwelt 
on a farm called ''Scott's Plain," who came shortly after the pur- 
chase of the land, leasing his farm from Huffman ; about the same 
time came the Baughmans, two or three brothers; Moses Tharp, 
who built the first sawmill east of Franklinton, selling it a few 



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years later to William Headley, who, with his brother, converted 
it into a grist mill, 'i'hc i)la('0 where the old mill stood was 
known as Ileadley's Corners, the name still clinging to it. Peter 
("iscn also came to reside in the vicinity about the same time. All 
these old families are still r('])resented in the county, the old 
homes still held in some instances by the fourth generation. As 
the families intermarried oi' <lcath removed the elders, the land 
was divided and subdivided, hut every I'od of the original 4()()0 is 
si ill held in the original families. 

in ISO!) George Dague and Mary Pnuighman were married by 
a man named Shaw, who lived in the Alum creek settlement, and 
who was the lirst justice of the peace east of Franklinton. Of 
this union there were born five children, four of whom still live 
in the same place near New Albany, in wdiat was originally known 
as the Baughman-Dague settlement on the Rocky Fork. Jon- 
athan Dague, a descendant, was born October 14, 1814, 
and although nearly 83 years old, is still hale and hearty, having 
had scarcely a day's sickness in all his life and never expending 
to exceed ten dollai's for medical services for himself. In those 
days there was not a physician at every stone's throw, and few 
would be needed now, if their existence depended on the older 
people. Mr. Dague is a happy looking man, weighing over 200 
pounds, and scarcely appears to be sixty-five, and is a typical son 
of the soil he has tilled contentedly all his life. 

He remembers many forgotten incidents relative to the old 
days of the county and has seen many wonderful changes, espe- 
cially in this city. When he was a small lad he says there were 
friendly tribes of Indians camped near his father's farm. He has 
forgotten the names of the tribes, but remembers the .chiefs dis- 
tinctly. They were called Long Jim, Indian Joe and Big Tree. 
These Indians used to go among the white settlers, to the mingled 
terror and delight of the children. Young Jonathan was a 
favorite among them, and many a time sat upon the knees of the 
dusky chiefs listening to their many tales of days before the white 
man in\;ided tlieii" niihroken hunting grounds. 

As a young man ]\[r. Dague used to drive a team of oxen 
thi'ough the fon-sts into Fi-;nd\linton when Colundius was ])rac- 

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tieally nil, tliorc being only seven houses, and those between High 
street and the river, i^eighbors east of what is now High street 
were between two and four miles apart, se^Darated by almost un- 
broken forests. Where the State House now stands he lias cut 
many an oxgoad from the trees which had stood there in un- 
pruned verdure for many years. 

A maternal aneester, George Baughman, was a soldier in the 
Eevolutionary army and Mr. Dague possesses an old pistol and 
dirk knife, both of which played their part in the struggle. 

Mrs. Emily Merion-Stewart, residing on Oak street, is, says a 
writer in the Evening Dispatch, the representative of four fami- 
lies of pioneers, the Stewarts, Merions, Fishers and Waits, who 
came to Franklin county prior to 1808. Her husband's grand- 
father, Michael Fisher, came to this country from Virginia in 
ITUO. Her grandfather, Jenks Wait, came from Rhode Island 
to Johnstown, N". Y., and from there to Franklin county, O., in 
1805; the Stewarts from York, Pa.; the Merions from Boston, 
Mass., in 1808. Mrs. Stew^art's father, William Merion, rode 
from Boston to Worthington, O., horseback, the journey occu- 
pying five weeks. He reached his destination in June, 1808. 
The country was then a wilderness and Mr. Merion's only guide 
was his faithful compass. This interesting relic Mrs. Stewart has 
given to her daughter, Mrs. Sallie Merion Dering, of Chicago, 
Ills., who prizes that, as well as a silver tablespoon made out of the 
silver her maternal grandfather's widow, Mrs. Jenks Wait, re- 
ceived from the government. Jenks Wait was a soldier in the 
Eevolutionary war. He died in Franklinton in 1824. His 
widow received a pension. The first payment was for six months 
and in silver. She took this money and had these large spoons 
made out of it, one for each of her daughters. 

In speaking of these families at the Pioneers' picnic at Worth- 
ington, in June, Mrs. Stewart said, in a paper read then: ''I 
have lived to know six generations of these families. The re- 
mains of five generations are resting in Greenlawn. I have no 
father or mother; no brothers or sisters, uncles or aunts. My 
husband (Edmund Stewart) passed beyond our sight 39 years ago. 
I am the last of mv c-eneration. I am alone. I am the daughter 



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and sixth cliild of AVilliam Merioii, Sr., and Sally Wait Merion 
and was born on what is now South High street, Columbus." 

The })ioneer physician, says Mrs. Stewart, believed in heroic 
treatment, blistering, bleeding, tartar emetics, calomel and 
salivation, and tliat (nic teaspoonful of cold water was certain 
death. 

The first physician in this county, Dr. John Ball, came from 
Johnstown, N. Y. He rode through these dense forests, where 
there were no roads but Indian trails, swimming his horse over 
streams that were bank full. He utterly sacrificed his life for 
the public gotxl and died March 10, 1818, aged but 43 years. His 
tombstone has braved the winds and storms of years in the old 
Franklinton graveyard near Rickley's mill. 

Once when Dr. Ball had a patient very ill with malignant 
fever, the family was worn out taking care of him and the good 
doctor told them if they would all go to bed he would sit up with 
th<' man. The doctor sat in his stiff backed chair— there were 
no easy chairs then — all night. Just as morning dawned he fell 
into a doze. He was awakened b} a gratified exclamation from 
his patient, who had crawled to the water pail and had just fin- 
ished his third pint of water. Water, the physicians declared, 
in case of fever, was poison. The doctor laid his hand on the pa- 
tient's shoulder, saying: "'You are a dead man." 

"Thank God, I shall die with a stomach full of water, anyway," 
was the answer. 

He recovered. Dr. Ball used to say of it : "I put that man to 
bed; he broke into a sweat, the fever was gone and he got well." 
True to his teaching, however, he never tried that on others. 

In April, 1824, the first quinine was brought to Columbus by 
Dr. Kingsley Ray, of Worthington. It was called salts of bark 
(Peruvian). One ounce was sent on trial. It revolutionized the 
old treatment of chills. Then came the steam doctor. The pa- 
tient was placed in a large chair, and chair and contents covered 
wifli blankets. A vessel of water was placed under the chair in- 
side the covering. A red-hot brick was dropped into the water 
to make steam, cayenne pepper and "'No. 6" were fed to the pa- 
tient, and many did go over the dark river via the steam route. 



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In speaking of "bleeding" the sick, Mrs. Stewart said, "If I had 
kept account of the bowls of human blood I have carried out of 
my father's house it would amount to baiTcls, the blisters would 
have covered roofs and floors of the home building." 

About 18o-i the Botanies came. They did not bleed, they 
cupped, blistered, sweat and drenched the patients with boneset 
and lobelia to sweat the calomel out, the other doctor had given 
years before. It was in 1850 the llomeopathists came, with their 
little pills and pigeon broth. "You will laugh, when I give the 
recipe for it," said she. '.'Piit a vessel over the fire with one gal- 
lon of water. Secure two pigeons, be sure they are nicely 
dressed, hang them in the sun in a position to throw their shadow 
in the water. Boil the water two hours. Give the patent one 
teaspoonful three times a day. It was a clean comfortable way 
to be sick, a clean comfortable way to die. But we did not die, 
but got up well, and did not have to combat the effects of strong 
medicines for months. Nature is the great healer after all." 

In those days the schools were all subscription schools. Mrs. 
Stewart has a receipt dated June 10, 1822, for "forty days' tuition 
of Sarah Brown at three cents per day," given by Stephen Berry- 
hill, teacher to William Merion. 

That the prices were somewhat different then from now is 
shown in a bill of goods Mr. Merion bought of Sullivant & Starl- 
ing, from August 15, 1809, to June 7, 1810. One pair of 
blaid-^ets $7 and one wooden bucket 75 cents. One tea kettle, 
iron, he paid $3 for, when one can get plenty for 35 cents. For 
one bed cord he paid three pence and Young Hyson tea was $2 
per pound. One pair of wool cards cost 87 1-2 cents, and for 
one gallon whisky of the good old pure, unadulterated stuff, he 
only gave $1 ! One yard of Leno muslin cost 46 cents and one 
pound of coffee 50 cents. One-half pound of tobacco 18 3-4 
cents, as money was counted in pence and shillings there are 
man}^ fractions on this old bill. Two and three-quarter yards 
check percale cost 92 1-4 cents. Five dollars and fifty cents was 
paid for a silk shawl. There was then no duty on silk and it was 
very cheap. There is beeswax, indigo, spices, chocolate, hinges 
and screws, saltpetre, for which 12 1-2 cents was paid for one- 



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ftuirtli of u pound. Madras and silk handkerchiefs, girting of 
which two and one-fourth yards cost 84 3-4 cents. One pair of 
men's shoes, presunialtly tine ones, cost only $2.25. l>ut there 
is no mention of bread, sugar or the things one buys at the de- 
partment store, which is but the country store on a large scale. 

Tn talking of Franklinton relics Mrs. Merion Stewart asked 
the reporter if anything had been heard of Cato. Cato was the 
skeleton of a colored man hung in Johnstown, N. Y., in 1802. 
Dr. John Ball brought him to Franklinton. Skeletons were a 
rarity then and the sight of Cato gave many a one a shaking ague 
c-liill. Cato liad been a very large man, over six feet tall. Ilis 
remarkable peculiarity noticeable after death, was that he had 
double teeth all around, u])per and lower. The skeleton was 
hung in Dr. Ball's closet, in such a manner that when the door 
was opened at a certain angle the arms flew out and the teeth 
gnashed together. 

Wlienever Dr. Ball employed a servant, and servants got sick 
those days (piite often and didn't stay long, he told them always, 
male and female, they could have the freedom of the house except 
that one closet up stairs. They must not go near it. Then he 
would (dnud<le to himself, though weanng a solemn face, and 
watch the endurance of human nature. Men didn't count, they 
had no business u]) stairs, but the women, some of them, crushed 
their curiosity for five days — never longer. One day he em- 
])loyed a woman, she had not been in the house three hours until 
she was up stairs. Just a little was the closet door opened — just 
another little bit. She was clasped in the arms of a "monster 
who nearly (dioked the life out of me." She gave an unearthly 
yell, and fainted. Dr. Ball revived her and she left the house. 

Dr. Ball was very tender hearted. One morning a very poor 
woman came to him for a prescription. He dealt out calomel, 
tartar emetic and barks. 

"TTow much do T owe you?" asked the sick woman. 

''P'ifty cents," replied the urbane doctor, "and you can pay 
for it by doing a washing for my wife when able." 

"Indeed I'll not take it. It's too much," said the thirfty wife 
of Dr. Ball. 



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"Very well, luadain, take the medicine free gratis; it only 
cost nie about ten cents. My wife can do her own washing," and 
he politely bowed the poor, grateful woman out. 



Thus run the reminiscences of Franklinton, full of all the 
elements that make up the life of today, but hallowed by the 
lapse of time. Human nature was much the same then as now. 
Life was serious, but it also had its merry side. Only the setting- 
was different, but so great is that difference that the picture, as 
showm in the records of the pioneers or heard from the lips 
of those who stand midway between them and the present gen- 
eration, is most attractive. Everywhere there stands out the 
courage, the honesty, the optimism of the pioneer. For these 
qualities we revere them. Had they lacked any one of the 
three, Ohio would assuredly not occupy her present proud posi- 
tion in the Sisterhoud of States. 



CHAPTER XII. 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



Frankliutoa and the capital city, Columbus, which has 
grown up to take the place of the older town, have produced 
many men ot whom Ohio has reason to be proud. It 
could not be that pioneers so energetic and courageous and 
upright as those who settled Franklinton could be followed 
by men who were anything but public-spirited and true. In 
the preceding portion of this book, it has been told what was 
done to celebrate the Centennial of Franklinton and who 
did it. In this portion of the work it is a pleasure and priv- 
ilege to speak in more detail of some of the men who, as in 
other public enterprises, were foremost in this. There is, 
besides some biographical treatment of a few of the more 
prominent of the pioneers who have finished their work and 
whose fame is already a part of the history of the early set- 
tlements in Ohio. 




MARCUS A. HANNA, U. S. SENATOR. 



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Sciiatdi" iraiina is a native JJiu-keye, his birthplace being New 
Lisbon, (^)hnnbiana county, where he first saw the light, on Sep- 
tember 24, 1837. He removed to (Cleveland with his father when 
fifteen years old. He attended the public schools of that city 
and afterwai'ds took a year's scientific course at the Western Ke- 
serve college. When twenty years old he went to work in his 
father's wholesale grocery, and upon the death of the elder 
Hanna took entire management of the concern. He has been 
ever since prominently identified with the business interests of 
(Cleveland. He has likewise taken ])art in the development of 
the lake-carrying trade and the, ore-mining industry, both of 
which are prominent factors in the wealth and greatness of Ohio. 

Though previously well known as a business man. Senator 
Hanna attained national prominence in the successful manage- 
ment of the great presidential campaign of last year. His grasp 
of the situation, and the executive ability which he displayed, 
demonstrated that "the business man in politics" was a power 
as effective as it was novel. In the matter of the appointment of 
R successor to United States Senator Sherman, when the latter 
went into President McKinley's cabinet, Mr. Hanna's popularity 
with his party was such as to sweep aside all opposition. He en- 
tered upon the discharge of his duties as senator on March 4, 
1897. 

Senator Hanna had never before held office except that of 
member of the Cleveland board of education. At this time when 
many wealthy men, who provide private instruction for their chil- 
dren, complain of being so heavily taxed for the education of the 
masses, it is Avorthy of record that Senator Hanna is a staunch 
friend and advocate of our public school system, believing it to 
be the great commoner, upon which rests the stability of our free 
citizenship. Senator Hanna is known as a hard-working business 
man, simple in his habits, unostentatious in manner, and easy of 
access to the humblest idividual. 

In January, 1808, Hon. M. A. Hanna was re-elected by the 
Seventy-third General Assem})ly of Ohio to succeed himself in 
the United States senate after a hard-fought contest. 

Mr. Hanna delivered one of the principal addresses at the Co- 
lumbus celebration of the Franklinton Centennial, which will be 
found in this book. 



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IIOX. SAM TEL J. SWARTZ. 



Judg-e Swartz, »if the Coluuihus Police Court bench, was born 
in Fail-field cdiiiity, Oliin. Fcbrnarv 8, 185!». His father was 
a Tnion soldier, who wa> killed at the battle of Shiloh. loung 
Swartz entered the Fairfield Fnion academy at Pleasantville, O., 
when sixteen years old. and in JSSl he became a student at Ohio 
Wesleyan nidversity at Delaware, Ohio. Upon completing his 
education he came to Cohnnbus, Ohio. He soent several years 
in the employ of a wholesale house, part, of the time in the ca- 
pacity of a connnercial traveler. His tastes inclining him to 
law rather than to a business career, he entered the law office of 
Converse, Booth cV Keating, and in due course of time was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He soon became one of the best known young- 
lawyers of Cohnnbus. At a v(n\v early statie in his career Judge 
Swartz showed ability and talent for j)olitics. His abilities as an 
organizer and worker have caused liim to be sought after by many 
of the ))rominent men of his ]>arty. He was one of the leading- 
spirits in the organization of the Ohio League of Republican 
Ohibs, and has served as its secretary. He was appointed by 
the governor to fill a vacancy in the police judgeship, which he 
did with honor and credit to his party. A few months later, at 
the s])ring election of 1897, he was elected by the people for a 
term of three years. The compliment was more marked from 
the fact that the balance of the ticket was defeated. 



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MILO B. LEE. 



A comparatively recent, but none tlie less valuable acquisition 
to the business population of Columbus, is Mr. Milo B. Lee, man- 
ager of the White Swan laundrv company, who located on West 
Broad street in 1893. 

Mr. Lee was born in Ashland county, O., in 1848, and received 
his early education at the district schools of that county. He first 
ventured in business as a hardware merchant, conducting a store 
at Huron, O. He continued in this business for many years until 
his son Adison was old enough to go into business, when they 
formed a ])artnership and came to Columbus, establishing a 
laundrv at 520 West Broad street. Mr. Lee and his son were 
both greatly interested in the Franklinton centennial celebration, 
and contributed in manv Avavs to its success. 



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Above is a vcrv fair likeness of D. J". CUaliaiie, the enterprising 
citizen of the West Side. Mr. Clahane was born in Columbus, 
educated in her public schools, but finished his studies with a 
private tutor. Living in West Columbus, he early saw the causes 
whieli were retarding the growth of that section. He started in 
1888 to remedy these evils by a series of addresses before the 
Board of Trade, and later on, was elected a member of the City 
Council, where he had full liberty to bring into execution the 
many ideas he had Ix^en jireviously advancing. As a result of 
his exertions many ordinances were passed which brought about 
the ])lienomenal growtli of the West Side. Among other things, 
$50,000 were approju'iated by the city to construct massive levees 
along the west bank of the Scioto river; a new $20,000 market 
house was erected, three miles of ten-itory on the western limits 
were annexed, the first electric street car service in the city was 
instituted, $350,000 were expended in sewerage, many miles of 
paved streets were laid, and a hundred electric lights erected. 
Tie was a steadfast friend of the people, securing, after a three 
months' fight in council a concession from the street railroad 
magnates to give to the people the present system of transfers. 

He was president of the city council one temi, and chairman 
of the executive committee of the Columbus celebration of the 
founding of Pranklinton, in which he distinguished himself in 
many ways. Many of Mr. Clahane's plans receive mention in 
other parts of this book. 



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SAMUEL BOKGER. 



Mr. Saiuuel lj()i'i>er, of the tiriii of Borger Bros. & Co., City 
Boiler Works, was l)()rn in Colmubiis on September 15th, 1854. 
Jlis parents were among the pioneer settlers of the West Side, 
having located there in 1849. They soon engaged in the manu- 
facture and repairing of steam boilers. Samuel Borger, at the 
age of 13 years, Avas taken into his father's shops to learn the 
trade of boiler making, at which he continued until the death of 
his father in 1870, when he engaged in the manufacture of steam 
boilers and assumed the management. The place is now known 
as the City Boiler Works. Aside from the manufacture of steam 
boilers, Samuel Borger is engaged in various business and finan- 
cial enterprises. 

In 1884 Mr. Borger was elected member of the City Council 
and served with honor until the expiration of his term. He was 
returned to ofhce in 1889, serving four years as a Republican, 
notwithstanding the ward . was largely Democratic. He 
is popular with the people and has always filled every position 
v>'ith honor to himself and credit to his constituents. 

Mr. Borger was mamed in 1877 to Miss Mary E. Walter, the 
daughter of Mr. Lawrence Walter, one of the pioneers of Colum- 
bus. To them were born three children, two boys and one girl. 

Mr. Borger has a large number of friends in business and social 
circles, and is highly esteemed by all. 



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HOX. GILBERT H. STEWART. 



Judge Gilbert H. Stewart, of Columbus, was born in Boston, 
Mass., March 15, 1847. His parents were natives of Maine and 
descendants of early Kew England Puritans. Tliev settled in 
Boston in tlie sjiring of 1846. When Mr. Stewart was five years 
old his parents removed to that portion of the city of Cambridge 
nearest to Boston, now known as East Cambridge. 

Mr. Stewart was educated in the public schools of Cambridge. 
He entered the High school there in 1860, and had, during his 
four years of study there, both Lyman R. Williston and William 
J. Rolfe as principals of the school. ^L\ Rolfe is the well-known 
Shakespearean scholar and the author of many books. In the 
fall of 1864 Mr. Stewart was admitted to Harvard university. 

He pursued his course of study with success, standing high in 
his classes until the spring of 1867, when, impatient to engage in 
his chosen profession, he entered the Harvai'd Law school. At 
the. same time he entered the law office of Lorenzo Merritt, East 
Cambridge, Mass. July 19, 1867, Mr. Stewart transferred his 
residence to Gallon, O., and contiiuied his legal studies at that 
place. 



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On May 5th, 1860, he was admitted to the bar. A uiimber 
of hawjers who have since become celebrated were concerned in 
this admission to the bar. The motion to achnit was made by 
lion. Chaunoey N. Olds, and the connnittee on examination 
consisted of Hon. Geo. K. A'ash, Colonel J. T. Holmes and Hon. 
M. S. Brasee. 

Mr. Stewart resided at Gallon nntil April, 1873, when he re- 
moved to Colnmbns, where he has resided ever since. 

When the Circnit conrt of Oliio was established Mr. Stewart's 
snperior education and legal ability were deservedly recognized in 
the fall of 1884, by his election as judge of the Circuit court of 
Ohio. At the end of his first term in 1888, his faithful services 
resulted in his renomination by acclamation and his re-election 
to the office for the term of six years. At the annual meeting of 
the Circuit judges of Ohio in 1892 he was chosen chief justice 
of the Circuit court of Ohio for the ensuing year, and at the 
close of that year was re-elected by his fellow judges for the year 
1894. At the ex^^iration of his second term of judgeship in 1894, 
though urged to again accept, he declined a i-enomination and 
retired from the bench. 

Judge Stewart was a member of the board of education of Co- 
lumbus from 1880 to 1882. He was elected a member of the 
city council of Columbus in the spring of 1884, but resigned his 
position upon his election to tlie Circuit court in the fall of the 
same year. In February, 1882, he was made lecturer on medical 
jurisprudence at Starling Medical college, Columbus, and in 
March, 1884, was elected to the chair of the same subject. In 
January, 1897, Judge Stewart was elected by the members of the 
Columbus Board of Trade to the presidency of that organization. 

REV. DENNIS A. CLARKE. 

Rev. Dennis Augusta Clarke was born at Columbus, O., De- 
cember 15, 1850. His parents were among the early settlers of 
Columbus, having come to Franklinton from Virginia in 1832. 
He attended the parish school of St. Patrick's church of Colum- 
bus and afterwards entered the University of Notre Dame, from 
which institution he graduated with honors in 1870, receiving 
the degree of ]3aclielor of Science. For some time he pursued 
other studies in the literary and scientific courses and obtained 
the degrees of Maiter of Science and Master of Arts. On his 
return to Columbui in 1874 the late Bishop Rosecrans prevailed 



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upon him to establish a Catholic newspaper in Columbus, and in 
consetpience the "(^itholic (^olumbian,"' under his management 
and the editorial control of the lit. Rev. Bishop Rosecrans, made 
its first appearance in January, 1875. On the death of Bishop 
Rosecrans in October, 1878, the whole business and editorial re- 
sponsibility devolved upon Rev. D. A. Clarke. lie continued in 
this position until 1880, when he transferred an interest in the 
paper and the business management to John A. Kuster, who is 
the ])resent editor and manager of that paper. 




In 1879 Father Clarke was ordained a priest, having continued 
his theological studies after his return from college and during 
his journalistic work. 

From 1879 to 188;] Father Clarke was Catholic chaplain in the 
Ohio penitentiary. In 188-1 he disposed of all his interests in 
the '^Columbian" and was placed in charge of Holy Family 
(diurch by Rt. Rev. Bishop Watterson. Here his predecessor. 
Father Hayes, had laid the foundations of a new church, and it 
devolved upon Father Clarke to continue and complete the work. 
This he did very successfullv, and he has remained in charge of 
the same congregation ever since, excepting a year that he spent 
in the Rockies for his health. 

Father Clarke is an ardent advocate of the cause of temper- 
ance, and has been several times elected president of the Catholic 
Totiil Abstinence Union of Ohio. Father Clarke was prominent- 
ly identified with the Franklinton Centennial, having been chair- 
man of a committee. 



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CHARLES F. KIPP. 

Charles F. Kipp, as the "Franklin ton Centennial Editor" of 
the Columbus Press, perhaps did more than any other one man to 
make the celebration a success. Being a resident of the West 
Side he very naturally took an interest in the movement to cele- 
brate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Frank- 
linton. He was j)resent at the first general public meeting held 
by residents of the West Side to make ai"rangements for the 
event, and was a member of the committee of one hundred ap- 
pointed at that meeting to take charge of the celebration. Im- 
mediately thereafter he began the publication in The Press of a 
series of illustrated full-page historical articles relating to the 
early days of Franklinton, and kept the same up till the date of 
the celebration. The articles aroused great interest in the cen- 
tennial and very materially aided the various sub-committees in 
the discharge of their duties. 

Mr. Kipp is a native of Ohio, and was born at Rochester, Mus- 
kingum county, in 1853. He has been a resident of Columbus 
since 1870. He has served in the capacity of street car conductor 
on the High Street line a number of years (before the consolida- 
tion of the various local lines), and was for three years superin- 
tendent of the State and Oak Street line. He was employed as 
time-keeper and weighmaster at the Columbus rolling mill in 
1878-79, and in 1881 was elected constable on the Democratic 
city ticket. In 1882 he was re-elected to that office. He after- 
ward learned the trade of lather and worked at the same until 
1890, when he began his newspaper career. During the past 
seven years he has tried his hand at practically every branch of 
local reportorial work with marked success, and for the past three 
years he has been employed continuously as City hall and Gov- 
ernment building reporter for The Press. 



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WILLIAM BRIXisEK 



William Brixner was born Jime 20, 1873, at Canal Win- 
chester, Franklin county, O. His edncation was received in the 
public schools of the above place, after which he secured employ- 
ment in a blacksmith establishment, working in that capacity 
until his trade had been learned. This vocation Mr. Brixner 
soon found not to his liking and came to Columbus, where he 
secured a situation at the well-known grocery firm of J. Zettler. 
He is an industrious, honest and upright man and through these 
qualities he was gradually advanced until at the present he holds 
the title of head salesman, in which position he has and is giving 
the higln^st satisfaction to those in whose employ he is. Mr. 
Bi-ixner joined the Fourteenth regiment, Ohio National Guard, 
in 1895, and was assigned to company A. The company in 
which Mr. Brixner is attached took an active part in the Frank- 
linton centennial celebration, and he did his part to make the 
company highly spoken of. 

^\v. Brixner has a host of acquaintances, who have nothing 
but words of praise for him. 

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FKANK WEHE. 



Mr. Frank Welir was born in Richland townsliip, Fairfield 
county, Ohio, December 18th, 1868, and obtained his education 
at the Bremen schools. At the age of thirteen years he began 
clerking in Turner & Sons' store of Bremen, O. He was in 
their employment about five years, after which he secured a 
position in the C. & M. V. R'y office at Bremen under Y. W. 
Miller's administration. After graduating in this line of busi- 
ness he secured a position with the reliable dry-goods firm of 
Beall Bros. & Thrall, of Columbus, O., and after remaining 
with this firm several months he then secured employment as a 
representative of the Peruna Drug Co., of the same city. He 
remained with this company for several years, and was only com- 
pelled to give up this position on account of ill health. After re- 
maining in quietness for several months and recuperating in 
health he, at the age of 26 years, entered the field of journalism 
by founding the Bremen Banner, which was soon made, by his 
persistent efforts, one of the newsiest papers in the county. 
Mr. Wehr is a young man of more than ordinary ability, as the 
journal of which he has occupied the big arm chair as editor for 
the past three years will indicate. 



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GENERAL JOHN BEATTY. 



Jolm Beatty was born on the farm near Sandnsky, now occu- 
pied in pai"t by the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. In 1860 
he was the Republican presidential elector for the district which 
sent John Sherman to congress. In April, 1861, he raised a 
company for the Union army, and was commissioned lieutenant 
colonel of the Third Ohio infantry. During the succeeding 
summer and autumn he Avas with McClellan and Rosecrans in 
West Virginia, and in the spring of 1862 became colonel of his 
regiment. He accomj^anied General O. M. Mitchell in his dash 
into southern Kentucky, middle Tennessee and northern Ala- 
bama, and was for a time j)rovost marshal of the city of Hunts- 
ville. In October of the same year he fought at the head of his 
regiment in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. 

In December, 1862, he was assigned to the command of a 
brigade in Rousseau's division of the Army of the Cumberland, 
and led it through the three days' battle of Stone river. In Janu- 
ary, 1863, he was commissioned a brigadier general, and assigned 
to Negley's division. He was with Rosecrans in the Tullahoma 



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eampaign, and led the column which pursued the enemy to the 
summit of the Cumberland. While the army rested at Win- 
chester and Stevenson to prepare for the advance into Georgia, 
(leneral Beatty was president of a hoard to examine applicants 
for commissions in colored regiments. He subsequently had the 
honor of being the first of Thomas' corps to lead his coimnand 
over Lookout mountain. He was with Brannon and Negley in 
the affaii- at Dug Gaj), and a few days later took part in the two 
days' battle of (Uiickamauga, and the affair at Rossville. He 
was at this time specially mentioned in dispatches of liosecrans 
to the War Department, and recommended by General George 
H. Thomas for promotion to the rank of major general "for 
gallant and obstinate defense in the battle of Chickamauga 
against overwhelming numbers of the enemy." In the reor- 
ganization of the army in the autumn of 1863 General Beatty 
was assigned to the command of the second brigade, Davis' di- 
vision, Thomas' corps, but was with Sherman, in reserve at the 
battle of Missionary Ridge. When the rebel line broke, how- 
ever, he led the colunm in pursuit of the retreating enemy, over- 
took his rear guard near Graysville, where a short but sharp 
encounter occurred, in which the general commanding the op- 
posing forces was wounded, and his troops compelled to retire in 
disorder. He accompanied Sherman in the expedition to Knox- 
ville for the relief of Burnside, and the close of this campaign 
ended his militarv service. 

General Beatty was elected to the Fortieth Congress from the 
Eighth Ohio District, and re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty- 
second Congresses. He was one of the Republican presidential 
electors at large for Ohio in 188-i, and subsequently a member 
of the board of state charities. He was appointed a trustee of 
the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in 1890, but declined to 
accept. He is at present president of the Ohio Chickamauga 
and Chattanooga J^ational Military park commission. His 
speech at the Franklinton centennial will be found in this book. 



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HON. EMILirS O. RANDALL. 



Emilius Oviatt Randall was boni in Richfield, Summit county, 
O. He is a descendant of early Purit-an stock. Both, his paternal 
and maternal grandfathers fong-ht in the Revolutionary war. 
Mr. Randall attended the ])ul)lic schools of Columbus and Phil- 
lijjs' academy, Anduver, Mass., and he graduated from Cornell 
nniversity with the degree of Ph. B. and from the College of 
T>aw, Ohio State university, with the degrees of LL. B. and LL. 
.M. He was admitted to the bar by the Supreme court of Ohio 
in Jnno, 1800. He has l)een ])rofessor of commercial law in 
the Ohio State university since 1892, and rej^orter of the Supreme 
conrt of Ohio since May 14, 1895. He was a member of the 
board of education for the city of Columbus in 1887-9. He was 
l)re«ident of the Columbus Board of Trade in 1887. He has 
been a trustee of the Columbus Public Library since 1884. He 
was a])pointed by Governor McTvinley, in February, 1893, 
trustee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Histoncal So- 
ciety, and re-a])pr»inted l)y Governor Bushnell in Pebruary, 1896. 
He has been secretary of that society since February, 1894. 
Mr. Randall is a Repnblican in politics and has often appeared 
upon the jiolitical V'latfonu and also in the lecture field. He 
was married October 7, 1874, to Miss MarA' Coy, of Ithaca, 
N. Y., and they have three children, two sons and one daughter. 



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RICHARD E. JONES. 

If one should see the pleasant, smiling features of Mr. Richard 
Ellis Jones at one of the musical entertainments in which he 
takes so much delight, one would never imagine that he could be 
that most somber of individuals^ an undertaker. Such, how- 
ever, is the fact, and so well known has he become that in case of 
bereavement Mr. Jones is called to attend to the last sad rites by 
many of Columbus' most important and influential families. 

Mr. Jones was born August 10, 1853, in Liverpool, England, 
the city of quays and docks. His parents were "Welsh. At the 
age of nineteen he came to America and finished learning the 
trade to which he had been apprenticed, that of carpenter. 
Among other things, he assisted in constructing the buildings of 
Denison university. He also assisted in building the old 
Fnion depot. In 1877 he went west, and in company with 
Mr. George Ruhlen built Eort Custer in Montana, just one year 
after the massacre. After a years' sojourn in the west, Mr. Jones 
returned to Columbus and with his brother went into the lumber 
business. This partnership lasted seven yeai*s. 

In 1887 he, together with Mr. Webio, purchased the under- 
taking establishment of Mr. Joseph B. Stuart. One year later 
lie purchased Mr. Webb's interest and since that time has con- 
tinued to conduct the business himself. 



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Mr. Jones has traveled extensively, having visited all points 
of interest in Europe and America, but regards Columbus as 
the best place to make his home. 

Organizations of all kinds have had Mr. Jones' assistance. 
lie is particularly interested in music, having helped to organ- 
ize the first Eisteddfod, and was president of the one of 1898, 
the most successful one yet held in Ohio. lie is also president 
of the Ohio State Funeral Directors' Association, eminent com- 
mander of the ^It. \'ernon Commandery No. 1, Knights Temp- 
lar; past grand of the order of Odd Fellows, a Knight of Pythias 
and other organizations. 

Ml Jones was a member of the fireworks committee of the 
Franklinton centennial colel)ration, and worked hard for the 
success of the event, 

Mr. Jones married Miss Mary A. Cadwallader, of Columbus, 
in 1879. His wife died in 1897, leaving one son, Bertram 
George Jones. 




SAMUEL G. McCLURE, 

Member of the Centennial Committee and Managing Editor 
of the Ohio State Journal. 



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GUSTAV MAIER. 



One of the oldest dry-goods merchajiits of Columbus, Mr. 
Gustav Maier, was born in Columbus in 1848, and received his 
schooling in the German and English schools of that city. To 
complete his education, however, he spent two years at the Cap- 
ital university when that institution was situated where the 
Park Hotel now stands. 

Mr. Maier entered the dry goods business in 1863, the firm 
name at that time being J. G. Maier & Son. In 1873 Mr. 
Gustav Maier became sole proprietor, and since that time has 
continued to conduct the business by himself. He occupies a 
large building at the corner of Main and Fourth streets and 
gives employment to a large number of clerks. Among business 
men Mr. Maier is noted for his integrity and straightforward 
dealings, while in social circles he is known as a most charitable 
gentleman in all deserving cases. 

Mr. Maier is a member of the Columbus Board of Trade, the 
Hub Board of Trade and the Philos Club. He is active and en- 
ergetic in all business matters and is ever ready to assist any 
honest scheme for the promotion not only of his own business, 
l)ut also that of those with whom he is associated. 



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MR. FRANK W. DAVEY. 

The above cut is a good likeness of Mr. F. W. Davey, who was 
born in Ireland, Dec'ember( 1851. His earlier days were spent 
upon his father's farm. His education was received in a private 
school. In 1860 he came to America and made application for 
citizenship papers the same year in the city of New York. He 
soon secured employment in one of the large wholesale houses, 
holding the same for a long time. 

After handing in his resignation he moved to Pittsburg, where 
he engaged in the coal mining business. In 1873 he moved to 
Xavarre, a small town in Stark county, O. During his residence 
in this place Mr. Davey was one of the most energetic business 
men. In 1800 he was elected member of the town council, and 
re-elected in the spring of 1893. 

Wliile acting in the capacity of councilman he did himself 
proud. Mr. Davey was elected a delegate to the congressional 
convention which nominated our president, William ^NIcKinley. 
In 1803 he disposed of his business in Xavarre and moved to 
Columbus, locating on the West Side, starting a grocery and 
licjuor store. Mr. Davey and his son Aaron took a very active 
part in the Franklinton centennial celebration and did their 
share to make it a success. 



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EICHAED SINCLAIK. 

Mr. Richard Sinclair is one of tlie well-to-do pioneer citizens 
of Columbus. He was born JSTovember 9, 1828, at Rochester, 
]Sr. Y., where he attended public school. In 1838 his father came 
to Columbus with his family, but Richard went as far west as 
Detroit, where he lived for a short time. Inu 1840 Richard Sin- 
clair located in Columbus. He engaged in the meat business, 
and remained in that branch of trade for forty-nine years. He 
was married early in life, and is the father of seven children, 
two boys and five girls. 

A few years ago JMr. Sinclair disposed of a large tract of 
land on the West Side which netted him an independent fortune. 
A part of the original property is, however, still retained as a 
homestead. Besides this property, Mr. Sinclair owns several 
business blocks on West Broad street and other real estate. 

As an old settler he took great interest in the Franklinton 
centennial celebration, and contributed both of his means and 
of his time to make that affair a success. 



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C. M. SAVAGE, M. D. 

Dr. C. M. Savage was born November 16, 1846. His father 
was one of the pioneers of Colnmbus. Young Savage was sent 
to a military school at Cleveland, O., at the age of thirteen, and 
two years afterwards ran away and enlisted as a drummer boy in 
the Forty-seventh O. V. I. He served through the war of the 
rebellion, from Shiloh to the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, al- 
though he was four times wounded, first at Shiloh, then in a 
skirmish at Larkinsville, Ala., and twice at the battle of Kenesaw 
]\Iountain. The last two wounds were serious, and nothing but 
his pluck and youthful vigor saved his life. He was honorably 
discharged a few days prior to his eighteenth birthday. For 
some months after his discharge it was necessary for him to 
use crutches. Dr. Savage's army service was of two years and 
nine months' duration. At the age of 19 Dr. Savage began the 
study of medicine with the late Dr. J. K. Flowers. He was 
graduated at the Hahnemann Medical college, Philadelphia, Pa., 
in 1870. Soon after this he began the practice of medicine at the 
coraer of Third and Town streets, Columbus, O., where he has 
been located for over twenty-eight years. 

Dr. Savage Avas health officer of Columbus in 1882-8, and 
lu'csident of the board of TTnited States examining surgeons dur- 
ing President Cleveland's first terai. He is prominent in IT. Y. 
L., G. A. R., Masonic and Pythian circles. Dr. Savage is at 
present surgeon general of the Union Veteran Legion 

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WM. D. BRESNAHAN. 



TliG present chief deputy sberiii" of Franklin county, Mr. 
William D. Bresnahan, was formerly a night operator at the Co- 
lumbus telephone exchange, being connected with that institu- 
tion while it was still in its infancy. 

He entered the ser^dce of the public as a member of the force 
of County Clerk Joyce. He was retained in his position by the 
two succeeding clerks. In 1804 he entered the sheriff's office 
and was promoted to the position of chief deputy when Mr. 
Young became sheriff. 

Mr. Bresnahan is a tried bookkeeper and accountant and en- 
joys an extensive acquaintance among the legal fraternity. He 
is deservedly popular with a large cir(de of acquaintances. Mr. 
Bresnahan is a native of Sidney, O., Init has resided in Colum- 
bus the major portion of his life. 



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CHIEF OF POLICE PATRICK KELLY. 

One of the ablest and best known police chiefs in Ohio is 
Superintendent Kellv, of Columbus, O. His ability is conceded, 
especially where detective matters are in question, and many a 
crook gives Columbus a wide birth because he is at the head of 
affairs in police circles in the capital city of Ohio. 

Mr. Kelly was born in County Galway, Ireland, in March, 
1848. and came to America when but a boy of 15 years. He 
did not locate in Columbus until 1868. He was a young man 
of good habits and worked at various trades until January, 1877, 
when he was given a place on the police force of Columbus. He 
filled nearly all the subdi-dinate positions in the police depart- 
ment. In 1898 he was appointed detective at the Union depot 
and served for two years. In May, 1895, he was appointed as- 
sistant superintendent of police. The next year he was made 
superintendent of the police force, and he is acknowledged to be 
one of the best qualified men for that position to be found in 
the West. The good \v(jrk tlonc by the police under the super- 
vision of Mr. Kelly is a matter of widespread comment. 

In the discharge of his otHcial duties Mr. Kelly is noted for 
his calmness and good judguKMit. Personally he is mild and of 
easy approach, making liini a well-liked man in a very large 
circle of acquaintances. 



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EDWAED E. LERCH. 



Mr. Edward E. Lercli, paymaster of the Columbus, Hocking 
Valley and Toledo Railway Company, was born at Circleville, 
Pickaway county, February 21, 1866, and attended the public 
schools of that place. He came to Columbus at the age of 14 
years and completed his education there. In 1886 he engaged 
in railroad work with the C, H. V. & T. R. K., and for ten years 
rendered faithful service to that company. Being a man of 
good habits and considerable ability he steadily gained the con- 
fidence of the officers of tha company. On February 1, 189Y, he 
was appointed paymaster of the C, H. Y. & T. R. E.., and still 
continues to serve in that capacity. Mr. Lerch was active in 
organizing the West Side Building and Loan Association in 
1895, and was elected its secretary, which position he still holds. 
Mr. Lerch was married in 1891 to Miss Addie M. Sinclair, daugh- 
ter of Mr. John Sinclair, one of the pioneers of Franklinton. 
Mr. Lerch has lived on the West Side for the past thirteen years, 
and is thoroughly identified with its interests. He never per- 
mits an opportunity to advance its interests to escape him, and he 
has contributed much, in the past few years, to the success of 
his section of the city. 



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COLO]N"EL JAMES IvILBOURNE. 



Colonel The Hon. James Kilbourne, one of the foremost of 
the founders of Ohio, was born in 'New Britain, Conn., October 
19, 1770. 

He was of an ancient family long settled in New England, and 
who traced their descent from the fourteenth century in Scot- 
land through long successful years in England, and through one 
of the earliest of emigrants who came to try his fortunes in the 
new America. 

At the time of his birth his father was a very successful 
farmer, endowed with intense patriotism and eager to grasp for 
his sons the best the young republic could give them. 

Himself fired with this zeal and urged thereto by his father, 
James Kilbourne, at sixteen years of age, went to reside at the 



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home of Mr. Griswold, father of J^ishop Griswold, of the Protest- 
ant Episcopal church. 

Here, whik^ studying Greek, J^atin, English and the other 
academical studies possible to a young man at that time, he be- 
came interested in the Imsiness of the clothier, and, giving his 
time and attention to it night and day, was soon proprietor of 
four large establishments. He did not, however, allow his busi- 
ness to lead him from his love for study and reading, but was 
busily laying the foundation of that broad knowledge of men and 
letters which made his after life so conspicuous. 

At the age of nineteen he fell in love with and married Lucy, 
daughter of John Fitch, the bnilder of the first steamboat — a 
beautiful girl, famous for her wit and gaiety. 

His close attention to business during the next few years — too 
closely spent in hard work — brought on a sickness and weakness 
which made anything but rest and freedom from care impossible. 

He retired to one of his father's fanns and, interested in nat- 
ure and the practical operations of farming, his health was gradu- 
ally restored, and he became, what was at that time held to be a 
wealthy man. 

But, to a man of his quick, eager nature, the life of a farmer, 
although peaceful and happy, was not sufficient. At the age of 
thirty — inlSOO — he conceived the plan of organizing emigra- 
tion companies to settle in the fertile regions of the new ISTorth- 
west territory. He grew intensely interested in the idea and 
organized the Scioto company of forty members, and in 1803 
led a few families to wdiat is now the town of Worthington, O., 
where the Scioto company held large tracts of land. 

The first year's settlement numbered twelve families — ninety- 
nine members in all. His own daughter — Ornen — born on the 
journey, making the number an even hundred. 

In 1804 Ohio, as a state, was organized and Mr. Kilbounie 
was made captain of all the forces on the ^Northwest frontier. 
He was also Franklin county's justice of the peace. In 1805 
he surveyed all the Scioto company's lands, divided them, and 
dissolved the association. This same year he surveyed the south- 
ern shore of Lake Erie, from Erie county to the Maumee Rapids 
■ — a tract of land which was then practically Indian territory, 



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ami surveyed and laid out Sandusky, predicting that it would 
become the great lake port of the Northwest. 

At this time ho was also appointed by the U. S. government 
surveyor of puhlic lands, which position he held for nine years. 
In the meantime his interest in colonizing the new state had not 
lessened, and in 1805 he organized three new Ohio companies, 
from New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. 

He also brought out from Granville, Mass., the colony which 
settled the present town of Granville, O. Altogether, he was 
instrumental in bringing hundreds of Eastern families to try 
their fate in Ohio — at that time the Eldorado of the nation. 
Probably no one man did as much to encourage emigration and 
thus to build up the fortunes of the new state as did Mr. Kil- 
bourne. 

In 1800 the Ohio legislature made him a trustee of the Ohio 
University at Athens, which had, through Mr. Kilbourne's ef- 
forts, been endowed by congress with 46,000 acres of land. 

His prominence in religious and educational matters was recog- 
nized by his election in 1807 to the presidency of St. James' 
Episcopal church and Worthington Academy, both of Worthing- 
ton. In the same year he was made major of the troops on the 
Indian frontier, then only thirty miles from Worthington. In 
1808 he was one of tlie commissioners chosen to select a site for 
Miami University. ^Vt the same time his business was grow- 
ing enormously and he \va.s busy erecting mills, houses, shops 
and warehouses, and found it necessary each ^-ear to journey 
across the mountains to the East for supplies for his varied enter- 
prises. In 1807 President Madison appointed him one of two 
commissioners to establish the boundary line between the Vir- 
ginia and the Northwest reservation and the U. S. public lands. 

A few days after the completion of this survey, Mr. Kilboume 
was elected a member of congress and served through four ses- 
sions. He was a watchful, careful member, and has the honor 
of having introduced the first bill for the distribution of public 
lands to actual settlers. He carefully guarded the interests of 
the New West, and was instrumental in bringing about the 
passage of bills looking to the betterment of the lives of the pio- 
neei-s, the sailors on the Great Lakes, the men who had served 

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ill tlic Indian war.s and all who were actively engaged in the 
great work of beginning a new empire in the West 

Colonel Kilbourne was a famous Mason. He was the first 
grand, master of the first Masonic lodge in Ohio, and the first high 
priest of the first Koyal Arch Chamber. In 1823-24 he was a 
member of the Ohio General Assembly. He served on many 
important committees, among them the committee on the re- 
vision of Ohio laws, and he made the glossary of obsolete Greek, 
Latin and English words and terms found in Ohio's legal books. 

The governor appointed him to select the lands given by the 
Congress to Ohio for canal lands. He surveyed and laid out 
fourteen towns and cities in Ohio and was a favorite and a famous 
chairman of public meetings and conventions. He presided at 
the great Whig convention at Columbus on February 22, 1810, 
and on July 4, when the corner-stone of the present Capitol 
was laid. Mr. Kilbourne, while devoted to Ohio, was more 
closely interested in the welfare of the town of Worthington. 

He felt for it all the love a man feels for his own child, and 
he was greatly disappointed when the legislature chose Columbus 
as the capital in place of his beloved home. The story of the 
struggle is a dramatic one. Yet though disappointed in the leg- 
islature's choice, Mr. Kilbourne did not grow any less warm in 
his love for the state and his zeal for its good. In politics Mr. 
Kilbourne was a staunch Whig, never swerving from his belief 
in the tenets of that party. 

He had the misfortune when he first came to Ohio of losing his 
beautiful wife, who died shortly after they first came to live in 
Worthington. 

He married a second time Cynthia, sister of Dr. Lincoln Good- 
ale. He died at Worthington April 9, 1850, at the age of 80, 
full of years and honors, leaving a large family. 

Looking back on the unselfish, broad life of this man, with his 
love for others, his devotion to high ideals and his pride in the 
welfare of his state, and noting the results of his thought and 
labor, we may well say: 

"Verily he builded better than he knew." 



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COLOXEL JAMES KILBOURNE. 

James Kilbourne, gnuidsoii of the Hon. James Kilbourue, a 
distinguislied pioneer of Ohio, and son of Lincohi Kilbourne, was 
born at Cohimbiis, October 9, 1842. 

Of a long and honorable descent, Mr. Kilbourne has shown by 
his upright, unselfish loyal life the true spirit of noblesse oblige. 
His family is an ancient one. Beginning in Scotland in the dark 
and stormy times of the fourteenth century, through the civil 
and religious wars of England and in the early days of the young 
American Republic, its members have ever distinguished them- 
selves by their loyalty, pati-iotism and good citizenship, and 
Colonel Kilbourne is a worthy descendant of the line. 

His gi'andfather — also Colonel James Kilbourne — was one of 
the most prominent of the early pioneers of Central Ohio — the 
strong, earnest men who laid the foundations of the great state in 



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the trackless wilderness. His grandmother was Cynthia Grood- 
ale, sister of Dr. Lincoln Goodale, who gave Goodale Parle to the 
city of Columbus — and daughter of Major iN^athan Goodale, 
who was a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary army. 
James Kilbourne, the grandfather of James Kilbourne, distin- 
guished by his love of the people, his desire to see all men benefit 
from nature's boundless store without restrictions, was the author 
of the first bill in congress to give public lands to actual settlers 
thereon, which has propably been the source of more good to the 
American people than any other bill ever passed by congress. 

His whole life, his whole thoughts were given to help the 
laboring men, the sailors, the farmers, the people — the great 
majority — and to equalize the conditions of life to all men. 

History repeats itself, and the same spirit of love and friend- 
ship for all and the same wish to see fair play for every one and 
especially for the laboring man, is the greatest characteristic of 
Colonel James Kilbourne — the grandson. 

Colonel Kilbourne attended the public schools of Columbus 
and was graduated from the Columbus High school in 1857. 
Going from there to Kenyon college, at Gambler, O., he was 
graduated with highest honors from that institution in 1862, 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His life at college was 
marked by the same broad thought and conduct that has dis- 
tinguished his later years. Especially interested in political 
economy and social questions, and feeling already that impatience 
against all forms of oppression of the working man which is so 
strong a characteristic today, he eagerly joined in the political 
and social debates of the college world — being always found on 
the side which upheld the broadest Democratic principles. 

The day after ho passed his last college examination he enlisted 
in Company H, Fourth Ohio Vounteer Infantry. A character- 
istic of the man is that he refused an ofiiccr's commission — say- 
ing 'hat those who had already served were more deserving of the 
honor. He served in Maryland and West Virginia with his regi- 
ment until AugTist, 1862, when he was discharged to accept a 
commission as second lieutenant in the 95th Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry. He served with distinguished bravery with his regiment, 
\^hieh was of the First Brigade, Third Division, Fifteenth Army 



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Corps, under Oeneral Slicrinari, in the demonstration against 
Haines and Snyder's bliilfs, the capture of Jackson, Miss.; bat- 
tle of Chanijnon Hills, siege of Vickshnrg and assaults on Vicks- 
burg, May IDtli and 22d. 

He was then apjiointed on the staff of Oeneral J. M. Tuttle, 
commanding Hiird Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, and was 
present at the second capture of Jackson and took part in all the 
engagements of that campaign. 

He remained on staff duty until the spring of 18G4. In June 
of that year he returned to his regiment and commanded his com- 
pany at the several severe engagements near Tupelo, Miss., and 
Wi^s especially menti(;ned and commended in orders for efficiency 
ni:d daring in these battles. He also commanded his company 
during the pursuit of General Price through Arkansas and 
Missouri. 

He afterwards served on the staff of General John Mc Arthur, 
of the First 1 )ivisi(in, Sixteenth Army Corps, until the close of the 
war, participating in the siege of and assault on Spanish Fort and 
the capture of Fort Blakely and occupation of Mobile. His war 
record is one of the utmost gallantry and he secured for his dis- 
tinguished and gallant services the brevets of major, lieutenant 
colonel and colonel of United States volunteers. 

After the close of the war Colonel Kilbourne entered the law 
school of Harvard University, from which he was graduated with 
the degree of ]jaclielor of J^aws in 1868, and was admitted to 
])ractice in Ohio in the same year. 

Immediately after beginning the practice of the law, for which 
he was by nature and habit so eminently fitted, his health, under- 
mined by the long years of service and hardship in the army, 
broke down and, his physician commanding some more active 
occupation, he entered into business with his father, of the firm of 
Kilbourne & Kuhns, hardware merchants, of Columbus. A 
few years later he founded the Kilbourne & Jacobs manufactur- 
ing company, the management of which has since consumed the 
greatest portion of his time and attention. 

Tender his able direction this company has extended the field 
of its operations over the whole civilized globe, and is today the 
Ir.rgest corporation of its kind in the worhl. 



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In addition to being the president and general manager of this 
company, Coh)ne] Kilboiirne has been interested in many other 
enterprises of a pul»lic and ]>rivate nature. 

He was a director of the Board of Trade from 1887 to 1891, 
and after repeated refusals accepted the presidency during the 
year of 1895. 

He has been a director of tlie (V)hind)ns (Unl) from its begin- 
ning and has been four times its president. He is also a director 
of the New First ^tional Bank, of the C, H. V. & T. and the C. 
& C. M. Railways; of manv business corporations and of numer- 
ous social and political organizations. He has for many years 
been the president of the board of trustees of the Columbus 
Public Library; and to his desire to place within the reach of all 
the 0})portunities of knowing wliat is best in literature, and the 
ability to keep abreast witli the world's doings today, is due the 
large new reading room of that institution. 

His fondness for children and his sympathy with the lives of 
the little waifs who suffer in silence and amid dismal surround- 
ings led him to institute the Columbus Children's Hospital, of 
which he has been the president since its foundation, where the 
lives of so many of Columbus' helpless children have been made 
brighter and happier while the best of medical attention has been 
given them. 

Colonel Kilbourne is an ardent Democrat. For years he has 
been sought after by his friends to hold office, and has been urged 
to be their candidate for mayor, congressman, governor and IJ. S. 
senator, but he has always refused. 

An eloquent, persuasive speaker, and forceful, keen debater, 
he is continually called upon by his party, and by the people ir- 
respective of party to address them. He was the delegate from 
Columbus to the Democratic national convention at Chicago in 
1892, which nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency, 
and in 1896 to the convention which placed William J. Bryan 
in nomination. He is a true friend of silver, believing that the 
greatest prosperity will come to this country from the remonetiza- 
tion of that metal, and was the first in Columbus to publicly ad- 
vocate it. 

He was appointed, by Governor Campbell, one of the commit?- 
sioners from Ohio to the Columbian exposition at Chicago, but 



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was compelled, from the stress of business cares, to decline the 
?])pointment. 

He is the president of the Columbus Magazine Club, whi(;h 
meets at his home, and which is composed of thirty men, who 
for fifteen j-ears have held monthly meetings there to discuss 
literary and economical questions. Colonel Kilbourne is a mem- 
ber of the (J rand Army, the Loyal Legion and of the Society of 
the Army of the Tennessoe. 

His love of human libert_y and hatred of all forms of oppression 
have naturally enlisted his warmest sympathy with the cause of 
struggling Cuba. At his house was formed the Columbus 
Cuban League, of which he is the president and which has done 
and is doing much to instill in the hearts of Ohioans a strong de- 
sire to see the people of that ill-fated island freed fi-om the yoke of 
Spanish tyranny. Colonel Kilbourne's relations with his em- 
ployees have always been ideal. The strongest feeling of mutual 
respect and trust has always marked their connections, and never, 
during the existence of the corporation, has there been the slight- 
est rupture between the management and the employes. Col- 
onel Kilbourne has always been the idol of his men, standing to 
them in the relation of a father to his children, and always ready 
to help them in any of their affairs. 

Colonel Kilbourne's home life is a very happy one. A culti- 
vated man of letters, his library is stocked with the world's fa- 
mous books, being especially rich in treatises on political economy 
and sociology, which are Mr. Kilbourne's greatest study. He 
is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and is a vestry- 
man of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Columbus. 

He was the vice chairman of the Franklinton centennial com- 
mittee of 1897. 

Colonel Kilbourne was married October 5, 1869, to Anna B. 
Wright, eldest daughter of General George B. Wright, and has 
four children, three sons and one daughter. 

Colopel Kilbourne's position in Columbus is a singularly happy 
one. Probably no man more commands the respect of the entire 
community. Xo movement pf public importance is complete 
without his co-operation. Xo one is too poor or too forlorn for 
his kindly svmpathy, and from highest to the lowest all men de- 
]ii;ht to do him honor. 



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HON. JAMKS II. ANDERSOX, 



(This sketch of Hon. James H. Anderson, of Cohmibus, O., 
is taken mainly from Vol. lA^ of the Historical and Biographical 
Cyclopaedia of Ohio.) 

James IT. Anderson, son of Judge Thomas Jeiferson and 
ISIancy Dnnlevy Anderson, was born in Marion, O., was educated 
in the select schools of the town, in the Marion Academy and the 
University at Delaware. He studied law with Bowen & Durfee, 
graduated from the law department of Cincinnati College, and at 
once l)egan the practice of his profession in his native place. 
He met with flattering success from the start. When scarcely 
22 he was elected mayor of Marion, and at the fall election 
prosecuting attorney of Marion county. ISTo indictment drawn 
by him w^as ever quashed. At the age of 23 he was married to 
Miss Princess A. Miller. At the age of 26 he came within one 
vote of a nomination for state senator; a nomination was equiva- 
lent to an election. The day he was 28 he was appointed by the 
president United States consul at Hamburg, the most important 
commercial city in continental Europe. As Hamburg was an 
independent state, Mr. Anderson's oihcial duties were those of 
both minister and consul. He remained abroad in the discharge 
of iiife duties five years and a half, during which time he received 



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iiiaiij Jttters of coiunieiidatioii from the secretary of state and 
others liolding high i)ositions. In 1862 the secretary of state 
sent hiiu this dispatcli: ''I liave transmitted to you under 
another c'iiveloi)e tlie N^ational Intelligencer, in which is printed 
a letter of Mr. Huse, one of the rebel agents in Europe, in which 
he confesses that his plans have been thwarted by the activity 
of yourself and the minister of the United States in London. 
The department takes ])leasure in acknowledging tlie service thus 
rendered to your country." 

In 1803, Mr. Aiulei-son was elected a member of the American 
Geogra])hi(';d and Statistical Society of the City of New York. 
In the same year he was elected a corresponding member of the 
American Institute. On the 30th of May, 1863, Mr. Anderson 
was a})])ointed a delegate to represent the American Institute 
of the City of Xew York, at the Great International Agricultural 
Exhibition at Hamburg. In a message to Congress touching 
this Exhibition, President Lincoln called attention to Consul 
Anderson's dispatches on the subject. In August, 1866, Mr. 
Anderson, weary of official life (and important interests at home 
needing attention), asked to be recalled. In answer to this re- 
quest Secretary Seward wrote: "Your resignation is accepted 
with regret. The department has every reason to be satisfied 
with your manner of performing the delicate and responsible 
(bities of your consulate. The records of the department sliow 
you to have been a faithful officer of the government." In 1860 
Mr. Anderson was sent as a delegate from the Eighth Congres- 
sional District of Ohio to the J^ational Union Convention at 
Philadelphia. In 1866 President Johnson appointed him terri- 
torial judge, but declining that judicial position because it would 
take him away from home again, he accepted the office of col- 
lector of internal revenue for the Eighth District. In 1878 he 
was appointed by the governor of our state resident trustee of the 
Ohio State University, and for seven years he served as chainnan 
of the executive committee. He had previously served as a 
member of a board of education, three years. Mr. Anderson has 
served as a member of the state executive committee of the 
Democratic party. He was secretary of the committee the year 
General Thomas Ewing ran for governor. He received a polite 



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invitation dated Decenibor 15, 1882, to become a memLer of the 
\'ictoria Institute or Pliil()soj)liieal Society of Great Britain. 
He is a life iiieiiihcr of the Ohio Archaeokjj>ical and Historical 
Society. He is a member of the Historical Scjciety of Virginia. 
The only secret society of which he is a meinl>er is the JVIasonic. 
Since early manhood Mr. Anderson has l)een more or less en- 
gaged in the practice of the law, in banking, in farming, and in 
stock raising and wool growing; but his principal enjoyment is 
probably found in reading, and in literary work. He was one of 
the original stockholders of the Citizens Savings Bank of Cohim- 
Imis. He came to the city in the spring of 1873, purchased much 
real estate, and a few months later removed his family to the 
residence he now occupies on East Broad street. 




HON. JOHN G. DESHLER, 

Member of the Executive Committee of the Franklinton 
Centennial, and principal of the Deshler Banking House, 
corner Broad and High streets, Columbus, O. 



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HEIsTRY A. lIAIiMOX, 



jVIauy a citizen of Columbus is able to accomplisli the dearest 
wish of King Henry of Navarre of France, for his subjects, "to 
have a fowl in his pot on Sundays," by reason of Mr. Henry A, 
Harmon. The name of Mr. Harmon is almost synonymous 
with poultry, butter, eggs and the like. But it was not always 
thus. 

Mr. Harmon was born in Germany June 21, 1829, and came 
to the Ignited States in 1842, going direct to Kentucky, where he 
engaged in the grocery business with his brother. 

He moved to Ohio in 1852 and lived for five years at Marion. 
Tn 1857 Mr. Harmon came to Columbus and set himself up on 
Xorth High street, selling groceries and fruit. He continued at 
this place for sixteen years, building up a valuable custom. In 
187-1 he located on South Fourth street, where he still continues 
to buy and sell all manner of good things in the way of poultry 
and farm produce. 

In 1894 Mr. Harmon was elected to the city council on the 
Democratic ticket and for two years served his constituency 
faithfully. One of Mr. Hannon's sons is also identified with 
political work, being assistant postmaster under the Cleveland 
regime, and chainnan of the Franklin county Democratic com- 
mittee. 

As a man of business Mr. Harmon is known and liked by a 
large circle of acquaintances, among whom he has a record of 
shrewd business ability and strict integrity. 



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JAMES DAVKV. 

JVir. James JJavey, wliose cut a])])cais al)()ve was born Marcli 
dtli, 1857, in Ireland. When only a small boy lie left his home 
and went to England, where he was admitted to the military 
school of the Qneen's (Jnards, which is located at Catern, Surrey 
county. He was only in attendance but a short thne until he 
was assigned to the Second Battalion, (Jrenadier (iuard for 
home service. This military company was called Her Majesty's 
Body Guard. He liecame a non-commissioned officer and served 
in that capacity until January, 1S7!>. He purchased his dis- 
charge and started for America, landing in New York February 
11, 1879, where he made apjdication for his first naturalization 
papers. He soon obtained a situation in a wholesale establish- 
ment, where he worked until 1881. He then moved to Penn- 
sylvania and engaged in the mines. In 1883-4 he acted as fire- 
man at the State Imbecile Asylum in Columbus. Being a faith- 
ful servant to his position and honorable in his dealings, he se- 
cured the position of fireman at the National Military Home in 
Dayton. He soon returned to Columbus and was united in 
marriage to Miss Alice Riley, a daughter of one of the pioneer 
settlers of the West Side. In 1885 he engaged in the liquor 
business on the West Side, since which time he has started similar 
businesses in various parts of the city. 

He took an active part in the centennial celebration and did 
good work on the fireworks committee, of which he was a mem- 
ber. Mr. Davey is well spoken of by all who know him for his 
business principles and charitable deeds. 



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WASiiiX(rr()X cjladdex, d. d., ll. d. 



\lvv. \)v. (iladdvii, pMstdi- (if the First (^3iigregatioiial chiircli, 
('(ilumlms, ()., was hum at Pottsgrovo, Pa., February 11, 1836; 
graduated at Williams college in 1859; was on tlie editorial staff 
oi' the New York "' 1 iidepeiideiit" 1871-75, and editor of the 
"Sunday Afternddii" in IsTs-SO; Itecanie })astor of tlie Cougre- 
gatir.ual (dinr(dies in l>ro<iklyn, X. Y., in 1S()(), and at Momsania, 
X. v., in isCil ; Xortli Adams, Mass., in 18()(i; Si)ringti(dd, Mass., 
in 1 sT,"*, and locate d in ( '<dnndins, ()., 1883. He is the author of 
sevei'al leading })ul)licarions. Ivev. Dr. (Jladden, Loth as a 
preacdier and author, is a recognize(l header of the thought of his 
denounnation. He is hjoked u}) to by all cla.sses as one of the 
leading men of Ohio's (-apital (^ity. His resich'nce is at ()31 
East Town street, and pastor of First Congregational church, 
East Broad street. 



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DANIEL McALISTEK. 



Daniel McAlister was born in the County Down, near Belfast, 
Ireland, July lOtli, 1887. In 1842 — early in the spring, when 
only about four years and a half old — he was brought to this 
country by his father, Michael McAlister, and with him settled 
on a farm in Washington county, near Marietta, O., where he 
remained until the age of fifteen, working with his father on the 
farm. 

The early education of Mr. McAlister, like that of many other 
men who have made their mark in the world, was obtained in the 
proverbial "little log school house," the only available educa- 
tional institution of those early days in that part of the country. 

In 1852 he canu^ with his father, and other members of the 
family, to Columbus, where he has remained ever since. In 
1858 he became one of the organizers of the Montgomer}' 
Guards, and was commissioned second lieutenant of the com- 
pany by (Joveruor Chase. When the war of the rebellion broke 
out he was still holding the position, but having been taken down 
by a severe attack of pneumonia, reluctantly resigned, after 
holding the company for two weeks. He often wonders, even 
now, whether he was in the army or not. 



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On .liiiiii;ii-v LMst, ISCI, lie was inari'icd to Miss Annie O'Calla- 
liaii l)v Father Kdwanl Fitzgerald, now bishop of Little Kock, 
Ark., and vcrv soon tliereaftcr went into business for himself at 
Xo. ()S South Fourth street, in this city. 

In 1S()2 he was elected marketmaster by the city council and, 
having- served the people faithfully, was re-elected in 18G3. In 
1)S()4 he tendered his resignation to Wray Thomas (the then 
mayor), owing to the increasing demands of his private business 
upon his time, but served for six months thereafter, owing to a 
"dead lock" in the city council and a failure on the part of that 
body to confirm his successor, the mayor's appointee. At the 
end of that time he refused to serve, and his successor took charge 
without confirmation. 

Mr. McAlister has always taken an active interest in the city's 
affairs, as he has, also, in other public; matters. He was elected 
as a member of the city council to represent the old Fourth ward 
(the home of Allen G. Thurman, John G. Thompson and Judge 
Y.. Y. Bingham), in 1865, and, as such, voted with E. B. Arm- 
strong, Luther Donaldson, Theodore Comstock and the late 
lamented Jacob Reinhard to purchase the City Park, to establish 
a better sewerage system, to erect a City Hall and to estaldish the 
pi-esent water-works system. 

He refused a re-election, owing to the pressure of these addi- 
tional duties upon the time he wished to devote to his business, 
but always took a lively interest in Democratic politics; serving 
many terms upon the county committee, two years as secretary, 
one as treasurer and two as chairman, between the years 1870 
and 1880. 

In 1870 he was elected delegate to the congressional conven- 
tion, this district, over the Hon. John G. Thompson, after a bitter 
contest, and as a reward was made chairman of the convention 
tliat nr»nnnated Hon. Thomas Ewing at Lancaster in that year. 

He was appointed trustee of the Ohio Institution for the Edu- 
cation of the Blind by Governor Hoadly in 1884, and reappointed 
to the same position by Governor Campbell when the Democrats 
got in again. Tlic Ix'st evidence of fitness for the position that 
we can offer sc':>ms to have been his reappointment, and the best 
as to his party loyaity seems to have been the haste \n\\\ which 



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lictli (Jovernors Foraker and McKinley displaced him on coming 
into ])()vver. 

To Governor Foraker he tendered his resignation, on being 
asked to do so, bnt to Governor McKinley, who demanded the 
resignation of everv member of the board — seemingly to rid him- 
self of Forakcr's friends — he refused to resign, and was removed. 

He has always been a practical and consistent member of the 
Catholic church, and in' 1880 was appointed one of the delegates 
to represent this diocc^se in the congress of Catholic laymen which 
was held in Iialtimore, .Aid., that year. 

His place of business is 140 Fast Ei(di street, where, with the 
exception of three years (from 18G1 to 18(54), he has been en- 
gaged in the grain and seed trade since 185(i, first as clerk for his 
father, then as a mcmljer of tlie firm of M. McAlister A: Sons, 
and finally for himself. 

At one time during the history of the firm of M. McAlister & 
Sons they handled nearly all the grain that was shi])ped from this 
portion of the state. 

Mr. McAlister is a mend)er of the (Jolumbus iioard of Trade, 
and as such was the first to urge upon the board the propriety of 
taking ])ai't in the celebi-atiou of the Frankliuton centennial, 
himself servilig as chairman of the committee on historic relies. 

'^rhroughout his life of sixty-one years Mr. McAlister has ever 
been a c<nispicuous figure amongst his fellow-men, and has taken 
no small j)art in juildic affairs, proving himself at all times to 
be a useful and an upright citizen. His record, in all these years, 
shows him to have been, not only a conscientious and a valuable 
citizen, with the interests of his adojjfed land and city at heart, 
but one also who was never more happy or contented than when 
in the service of his fellow-men. 



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HON. EDWARD J. BRACKEK 

If early associations and occupations count for anything, Mr. 
E. J. Bracken, wliose cut appears above, has an excellent pros- 
pect in the political world. Born March 12, 1851, in the 
metropolis of the United States, his early life was of a most varied 
character. His caily ((hui.tii-n he received in private and public 
schools. Though. but a lad of eleven summers, he went with 
the great army of the Republic through several campaigns. At 
the close of the war he, like Garfield, worked on the canal. . Later 
he worked in several factories. Here it was that he gained the 
great knowledge of, and deep sympathy with the laboring classes. 
In various occupations he acquired a thorough understanding of 
the needs and the problems confronting labor. 

Politically Mr. Bracken has inclined to the party that he 
thought promised the most good for the laboring man. He 
heard and obeyed the great Horace Greeley and his mandate, 
"Go West young man." He also cast his first vote for president 
for the noted editor of the New York Tribune. In Ohio Mr. 
Bracken early associated himself ^^^th organized labor, joining 
the union and Knights of Labor and holding various ofi&ces in 
that organization, including that of district organizer. He was 
for several years chairman of the legislative committee of Ohio 
State Trades and Labor Assembly. It was during this time that 
the majority of the labor laws were enacted, and the Spencer 
ninety-nine year franchise bill defeated. 

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■In 1893 Mr. Bracken was the popnlist candidate for governor. 
In 1896 lie stumped the State of Indiana in the interests of Wm. 
J. Bryan. In 1897 he was elected to the Seventy-third General 
Assembly of Ohio, representing the county of Franklin. While 
in the house of representatives Mr. Bracken advocated municipal 
ownership of street railways, two-cent fare and the consolidation 
of the offices of the justices of peace in one building. All of these 
bills received widespread attention from the press of the state. 

Mr. Bracken was also a member of the Cuban League and 
Humane Society. He was actively interested in the Frank- 
linton centennial. 




LOKE^'ZO D. HAGEKT Y 



The subject of this sketch, Lorenzo D. Hagerty, has held sev- 
eral positions of trust and honor. He has served several years 
as a United States commissioner for the southern district of Ohio, 
was a member of the first board of pardons of this state, and 
served six years as Probate Judge of Franklin county. While 
United States commissioner he did most of the business of the 
district, and in all of these cases his fairness was commented 
upon. While a member of the board of pardons, although there 
was no compensation allowed for his services, he yet devoted a 
great deal of time to the application for pardons, and was thor- 



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ouglily conversant with every case which was presented to the 
hoard. lie was ])r('sidcnt of the board nearly all of the time he 
was a iiicnilici-, and his tiiidiiiiis were ch-ai- and concise and showed 
that he ha<l ^iven a great <h'al of care and attention to the cases, 
lie was tirst elected proliate judge l)y the small majority of 315, 
hur for the second rciiii he was elected by a majority of over 
l'41I(), being the tirst Ive])ubHcaii proltate judge elected from this 
county, dudge Ilagerty lias been i)resident of the Crystal Ice 
Manufacturing and ('(dd Storage company for several years, and 
is largely interested in many eoqjorations and businesses of the 
city. He is a high Mason, a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow 
and a livd Man, to which societies he devotes considerable time. 
Judge Ilagerty has always shown himself a friend of labor, and 
his fairness in this direction has been one of the reasons for his 
great popularity before the public. Mr. Hagerty is at present 
practicing law and occupies an office on the fourth floor of the 
Board of Trade. 




MICHAEL J KIENLE. 



Wai? born August 29, 1858, in Logan, Hocking county, 0. He 
attended the public schools and at the age of 14 he learned the 
shoemakers' trade. In May, 1880, he married Miss Catherin 
Cronan, and to them were born four children. Three of the boys 



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are living and are all promising young men. In 1883 Mr. 
Kienle was elected clerk of Panle township, Hocking county, on 
the Democratic ticket, and served two terms with credit to his 
party. In 1889 he was appointed from Hocking county as one 
of the guards at the Ohio penitentiary under Governor James 
E. Campbell's administration, which position he tilled with great 
credit. On retiring from office he located in this city on West 
Town street, in the vicinity of the West Side Market House, and 
engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes. He also con- 
ducted a grain and feed store, together with a coal office, being 
assisted by his eldest son, Edward C. Kienle. In 1894 Mr. 
Kienle was appointed by the board of elections as one of the 
judges of election in the Thirteenth ward, which position he still 
holds. He is a man of good habits, upright and honest in his 
dealings with men and very successful in business. Together 
with many others he took an active part in promoting the celebra- 
tion of the Franklinton centennial. 




OHAS. H. BKOWI^. 

Charles H. Brown, long a representative citizen of the West 
Side, although now living on South Ohio avenue, is one of the 
best known and most popular young men in the city. Bom in 
Zanesville, O., February 28, 1862, he removed to E'ewark, O., 
with his mother when ten years of age, his father, who was a rail- 
road engineer, having been killed in an accident four years be- 



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fore. He became a citizen of Columbus in 1878, just twenty 
years since. For twelve years he was storekeeper at the Institu- 
tion for the Blind and t\w Colunilms State Hospital, of this city, 
going into office under a Democratic State administration and 
being retained by the Ilej)ublicans on account of his energy and 
efficiency. In 1892 lie was elected to the city council from the 
old Se\'enth ward, being the fii*st Democrat elected therefrom in 
eight years. In 1894 he was legislated ont of that office by the 
redistricting of the city, throwing him into the strongly Repub- 
lican Fourteenth ward. Mr. Brown served his constitnency and 
the whole' city as councilman with distinction and credit, taking 
high rank in the city legislature as an npright and ca})able 
servant of the people. In 1896 Police Clerk Tussing, without 
solicitation, appointed him his chief deputy, which position he 
has occupied with great credit ever since. Charles H. Brown is 
a self-made man. At a tender age it became necessary for him to 
go to work to support himself and mother. He began his busi- 
ness career by selling newspapers and thns early learned the 
lessons of industry and frugality that have marked his later life, 
whether working in a private capacity or serving the people in 
positions of trust. Four years of his time was spent as a travel- 
ing salesman for the H. J. Heinz Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., a posi- 
tion of the greatest educational value, and which he resigned to 
become deputy police clerk. 

Mr. Brown was married in 1887 to Mary C. Schwarz, of 
Logan, O., daughter of Jacob Schwarz, one of the most prominent 
German citizens of that city, a charming woman and an estimable 
wife, who has done much to assist her husband to achieve an en- 
viable success thus early in life. Two children have been bom 
to them, only one of whom, Elizabeth, now about eight years old, 
is living. In the world of social affairs Mr. Brown has also been 
prominent. He was president of the West Side Campbell Club 
when that club was a flourishing political organization. He 
is also a member of the B. P. O. Elks, the Maennerchor, Thur- 
man Club, the South Side Democratic Club and other societies. 



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BENJAMIiST FEANKLI^T MAKTIN. 



Benjamin Franklin Martin was born Jnne 22d, 1819, in Co- 
himbiis, O. His parents, William T. and Amelia Martin, were 
pioneers in the city of Colnmbus, having- emigrated from Bed- 
ford county, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1815. William T. 
Martin was many times honored by the citizens of Franklin 
county with various office: of trust and honor. He was at dif- 
ferent times justice of the peace, county recorder and associate 
judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1858, after much care- 
ful research, and largelv as a labor of love, he published "Martin's 
History of Franklin (V^unty,'" a work still regarded as authority 
on the many subjects that it covers. Mr. William ]\fartin died 
in 1866, his widow surviving him and dying in 1885 at the ad- 
vanced age of 94 years. 



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Their son, Benjamin Franklin, received his education mainly 
in the common schools of Columbus and at the Blendon Acad- 
emy. After leaving school ho was appointed clerk of the city 
council and occupied that jjosition for many years. He was also 
for several years deputy clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, 
and while so engaged he read law under the late Judge F. I, Mat- 
thews. Mr. Martin was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of Ohio November, 184Y. He associated himself with 
Mr. Lorenzo English, and the partnership continued for twelve 
years. 

In 1850 Mr. Martin was elected prosecuting attorney of 
Franklin county, and in 1852 he was re-elected to that office. He 
continued the practice of law imtil August, 1865, when he was 
appointed by President Johnson to the office of collector of in- 
ternal revenue for the Seventh District of Ohio. He gave to this 
office the closest personal attention, and its responsible duties 
were discharged with accuracy and fidelity until 1869, when 
General Charles C. Walcutt was appointed his successor. 

Upon retiring to i rivate life Mr. Martin gave special attention 
to office law business and the administration of trusts and large 
monied interests, and won an enviable reputation for integrity 
and ability. During this time he was appointed by Governor 
Young to the board of trustees of the Blind Asylum, and by the 
Court of Common Pleas as a member of the sinking fund commis- 
sion. He is also one of the directors of the Columbus and Xenia 
railroad company. 

Mr. Martin was twice married. His fii*st family, consisting of a 
wife and one son, died many years ago. In 1880 he was married 
to his present wife, who was formerly Miss Cecilia Workman, of 
Lancaster, a niece to the well-known editor^ Thomas Ewing. 
By this marriage there is one son, Franklin Ewing Martin. Mr. 
Martin is now living in i-etiremeut at his home on Washington 
avenue. 



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MR. FREDERICK LUTZ. 

AiiKHig tlie many good tonsorial artists that claim Columbus as 
their home, Mr. Frederick Lutz easily takes rank among the 
best. 

Fritz Lutz, as he is popularly known, was born in Germany in 
1867 and attended school there. There- also, he learned his 
trade, according to the slow but certain methods known only to 
the Germans. Coming to this country in 1883, he at once lo- 
cated in Columbus, where his thorough understanding of his 
trade soon secured a position for him. His first position was at 
the barber shop connected with the Grand Central hotel. Leav- 
ing there he became manager and proprietor of the American 
house barber shop. When that hostelry closed its doors he be- 
came the proprietor of the Goodale Hotel barber shop. His con- 
tinued connection with hotels has brought him in contact with 
hosts of people, whom his unfailing courtesy and business-like 
t'ltention have made fast friends. 

Mr. Lutz is particularly well known in secret society circles, 
being a member of the I*Tational Lodge of Odd Fellows, of the 
Franklin Lodge of K. of P., of the Beaver Tribe of Red Men and 
of the Columbus Lodge N"©. 37, B. P. O. E. 



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AVILLIAM FEDEKEK. 



As his luuiic woiiUl indicate, Mr. AVilliain Fedcrer, the well- 
known grocer and Laker of the AVest Side, is a German by birth. 
He Avas born in "das liebc Vaterland" May 12, 1856, and it was 
not until 1873 that he decided to come to America. His first 
location was St. Louis, Mo. where he lived ten years and where 
he was fairly prosperous. Coming to Columbus in 1883 he en- 
gaged in business at the corner of Gift and Town streets, one of 
the oldest parts of the city. In 1887 he married Miss Barbara 
Gundermann, and to them have been born five children, all boys 
and all living. Among business men Mr. Eederer's reputation 
is all that could be desired. Aside from that he is known chiefly 
as a domestic man, caring little for society outside of that which 
he finds around his own hearthstone. 

Mr. Fed^rer has been several times inix)ortuned to run for 
council from the Thirteenth ward, and could no doubt have been 
elected, but he prefers not to meddle in politics. He was active 
in the work of the Franklinton centennial celebration, contribut- 
ing both of his time and means. He assisted in the work of 
decorating the West Side, which added so much to the appear- 
ance of the town, and aided in many ways in making the entire 
affair a success. 



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NICHOLAS A. COURT. 

Among the many liotel proprietors and managers of the 
Capital City, there is none who enjoys a larger acquaintance or 
is more deservedly popular among its citizens, or throughout the 
territory traversed by the public generally, than Mr. N. A. 
Court. Nicholas A. Court was born at Tiffin, O., in 1857. He 
also received his early education at Tiffin. After leaving home 
and viewing the various sights and scenes in the numerous cities 
of this country, ho finally came to (\)lumbus, where he decided 
to locate. Mr. Court's first venture was with the old Exchange 
Hotel, where he began his career with Bud Hollings worth. 
Later on he accepted the stewardshi]) of the Commercial Club, 
but he resigned that position later and returned to his 
former position at the Exchange, which was later known as the 
Powell House. Mr. Court became one of the proprietors, and 
the hotel was nm in a successful manner up to the time it became 
necessary for the removal of the property in order to make room 
for the ])i-('sent new viaduct. Shortly afterwards Mr. Court con- 
nected himself with the Hotel Xormandie, and it may be said to 
his credit, that it was under his management that the house for 
the first time in its history was able to pay its rent and ])rove a 
profitable investment to the lessees. Upon severing his con- 



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iK'ction witli the Xoriiiaiidic ^h: Court had several things in 
view, but men of such character and ahility are always sought 
for, and as a result, Air. Court was solicited to take the manage- 
ment of the popular Smith's Kuro]iean Hotel, where he is now lo- 
cated, much to the pleasure <if the local and traveling public, 
and Smith's is now more p()])ular than ever as being "famous for 
good cheer." It goes without saying that its genial manager will 
coutinue to grow in popularity. 

In P>bruary, 1SS7, .Mr. Court was married to Miss Mary J. 
iSari'v, whose parents were among the pioneer settlers of the West 
Side. The result of this union has been four bright and inter- 
esting ciiildren, three of whom are living. 

"Xi(d\," as he is familiarly known, is an honored member of 
( "(tliimbus Lodge of Klks, and a general favorite among all classes 
of })eople, and if there is anvthiug to be gained by good will his 
future success is assured. 



MR. JAMES BURNS. 

Mr. Burns, of the Arcade Hotel, has a good record as a 
Union Soldier. James Burns was born in Ireland, in 1841, 
and came to America at the age of 12 years with his parents 
and settled in Columbus. He attended school and worked 
honestly at various branches of business. In August, 1862, 
James Burns enlisted in the 95th Ohio regiment, company 
C ; he was a brave young man and was soon promoted to the 
office of Color Sargeant, and carried the flag in the battle 
field. He was ordered to Lexington, Ky., August 20th, 
1862, and assigned to the Army of Kentucky, and action 
was taken at Richmond, Ky., August 29th and 30th, and as- 
signed to ist Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, April 
5th, same year, and ordered to Snyder's Bluflf, Miss. April 
30th was ordered to Fourteen Mile Creek. May 12th to 



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Jackson. May 14th to Vicksburg, Miss. The assault on 
Vicksburg, May 22nd, and Big Black, July 4th lo 6tli. Jack- 
son, July 9th to i6th, and was then ordered to duty near 
Memphis, Tenn. December 27th and 28th, ist Brigade, i.st 
Division, i6th Army Corps. January, 1864, was relieved at 
Chattanoogo, Tenn., and sent on expedition to Tripoli, Miss. 
June loth, 1864, was made prisioner of war and sent lo An- 
dersonville, where he staid 6 months and 15 days. He es- 
caped and was recaptured near Buford, S. C. He escaped 
again and got into the union lines. Reported for duty at 
Hilton Head, March, 1865. He rejoined his regiment. May 
ist to nth he did guard duty in Alabama. August 14, 1865, 
he was mustered out of the union army and returned 10 his 
friends in Columbus with a splendid soldier record. Mr. 
Burns is a member of the G. A. R., and has been offered 
millitary titles but always declined to accept. James Burns 
married Miss Ellen Irwin February 10, 1871, and to them 
were born five girls and one son ; the son is a promising young 
man. Mr. Burns has been elected to county and city offices 
on the Democratic ticket and always filled every position 
with honor to himself and his party. He is generous and 
upright with all men and conducts his business at the Ar- 
cade Hotel in first-class order, and has many friends. 



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WILL W. HOMES, M. D. 



Dr. Homes, city poor director and prominent Columbus physi- 
cian, was born at Middlesex, N. Y., March 4, 1848. He gradu- 
ated at the Columbus, O., Medical College in 18Y7. For a period 
of nine years thereafter he practiced his profession with success in 
Mai-iou and Delaware counties. He returned to Columbus as 
sujK'riuteudent of the Ohio penitentiary hospital under Governor 
Hoadly. At the expiration of his term of office he remained 
here in Columbus as a general practitioner. He was appointed 
to his present position in May, 1895, and has made an efficient 
officiah 

Dr. Homes is professor of clinical obstetrics in the- Ohio State 
]\[edical Society. He resides at 226 Lexington avenue, and his 
office is at 522 East Long street. 

Dr. Will W. Homes married Miss Anna E. Seair October 28, 
1868, and to them were born two daughters, Mna P. and Inez 
M., who are very accomplished ladies in Columbus society. 

Dr. Homes is very popular with all classes of people in Colum- 
bus, and conducts his present office of city poor director with 
dignity and credit to the city. 



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COLONEL E. L. TAYLOK. 

Edward Livingston Taylor was born in Franklin county, Ohio, 
^fareli 20tli, 1<S3!). On his father's side his ancestors were of 
Scotch-Irish origin. The Taylor family w^ent from Argyleshire, 
Scotland, to the !North of Ireland about 1612. They remained 
in Londonderry and its vicinity until 1721, when they came with 
a colony to America and settled at what was then called London- 
derry — now Derry — New Hampshire. It Avas at this place that 
Robert Taylor, the father of the late David Taylor, and grand- 
father of Edward, the subject of this sketch, was born, April 16, 
1759. In 1763 this branch of the family removed from New 
Hampshire to the Province of Nova Scotia, and settled in the town 
of Truro, at the head of the Bay of Fundy. It was here that 
Robert Taylor was married to Mehitable Wilson, December 6, 
17S1, and here, also, David, the fourth son of that marriage, was 
born on July 24, 1801. In the year 1806 Robert Taylor came 
with his family from Nova Scotia to Ohio, and for two years lived 
at Chillicothe. Li the year 1808 he built his house and settled 
with his family on the west bank of Walnut creek, in what is 
now Truro township, in Franklin county. This was the first 
frame house constructed in that part of the county, and here he 
lived until March 28, 1828, when he died. David Taylor con- 



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tinnod to live in Tniro t(nviisliip until 1859, when lie took up 
his residence on Kast Jiroad street, in the city of ( V)lunil)us, where 
lie died on the L^'.ith of. Inly, ISSi), at the advanced age of eighty- 
eight years. On his nioth(a''s side he is descended from the now 
widfdy-spread family of Livingstons. His grandfather, Judge 
Kdward ( '. Livingston, came from the State of Xew York to 
Ohio in 1S()4, and settled in Franklin county. He was a man of 
collegiate education, having graduated at Union College, New 
York, before coining to Ohio. His social and intellectual quali- 
tiCvS were of a high order, but, unlike most of his family, he had 
no taste for jjolitics or public affairs. The tendency of his nature 
was to social and domestic life. The home which he erected on 
the west bank of Alum creek in 1808 became, and ever after- 
wards during his life remained, a center of social hospitality. 
His death occurred November 14, 1843. He was associate judge 
for Franklin county from 1821 to 1829, but beyond this he never 
sought or held any ])ublic office. When the township of Mont- 
gomery, which includes the city of Columbus, was organized in 
1807, its name was given to it by Judge Livingston, in honor of 
(Jeneral Richard Montgomery, with whom his father had served 
in the Revolutionary war. 

. On the 16th day of May, 1830, David Taylor was married to 
^Margaret, eldest daughter of Judge Edward C. Livingston. Ed- 
ward, the subject of this sketch, was the second son born of that 
marriage. He tinished his collegiate education at Miami Uni- 
versity, Ohio, in 18(50, and at once commenced the study of law in 
the office of the late Chauncey N. Olds. His law studies were 
interrupted by the war, and during June and July, 1861, he 
served as a private in a volunteer company, of which M. C. Lilly 
was ca])tain. This service being terminated, he resumed his law 
studies until July, 1862, when he was commissioned to raise a 
comjiany for the war, which he accomplished in a short time, and 
was assigned to the Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Regiment. In 
this capacity he served at the battle of Richmond, Ky., August 
30th, 18()2, when he received a slight wound and was taken 
prisoner. He was released after a few days and served with his 
regiment in the Army of the Tennessee until the close of the 
siege of Yicksburg, July 4th, 1863. During that siege he was 



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seized with a fever, wliicli so debilitated liim that he was com- 
pelled to quit the service, and so he resigned his commission on 
July 5tli, 18G3, and retired from the army on account of disabil- 
ity. In November, 18C2, he was admitted to the bar by the 
Su})renie Court of Ohio, and at the close of the war he commenced 
the practice of his profession at Columbus, where he has ever since 
remained. His entire time has been devoted to his profession, 
and he has been employed in many important cases in the state 
and federal courts, and has been in association and conflict with 
many of the foremost lawyers in the state and nation. Mr, Tay- 
lor has always been a Kepublican in politics, but has never been 
a candidate for any office. Desiring no office himself, he has, 
however, taken an active part in all the presidential and other 
important campaigns, and has rendered his party important serv- 
ice in Ohio and other states. On the 14th of July, 1864, he was 
married to Catherine N. Myers, granddaughter of Colonel John 
I^oble, late of Franklin county. Five children have been born 
of this marriage, four of whom are now living. 




ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL. 
(Conducted by Sisters of Religious Orders.) 



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STEPHEN A. FITZPATKICK. 

Mr. Stephen A. Fitzpatrick, a newspaper man, came from Vir- 
ginia to Columbns, O., sixteen years ago, and was engaged on 
the Columbus Times by Col. S. Iv. Donavin. His parents came 
from Ireland to America in 1817. His father, John Fitzpatrick, 
served seven years in the English army and held office in Cal- 
cutta, India, before coming to America. Stephen A. was bom 
December 26, 1840, and was the youngest of a family of ten. 
His father died shortly after the late war of the rebellion at the 
advanced age of U4, and his mother died at the age of 88. Ste- 
phen A. was reared on his father's farm and attended school at 
Binghamton, Lockport, N. Y., and Niagara Falls. He worked 
for three years in the newspaper and printing offices at Lockport, 
'N. Y., and read law for some time in Judge Chamberlain's office 
in that city. Mr. Fitzpatrick removed to jSTew York city and was 
engaged on the New York Freeman's Journal by James A. Mc- 
Master, worked for the New York Herald, Telegraph and other 
New York papers ; he held a commission cf recruiting officer dur- 
ing the last year of the war of the rebellion, which ended April 
9, 1865; he then returned to Lockport, N. Y., and engaged in 
newspaper work and speculated in the oil fields in Pennsylvania, 
where he lost money. In May, 1867, Mr. Fitzpatrick was recom- 
mended to Hon. Dan Manning by Judge Chamberlain and 
General W. S. Farnell, of Lockport, N, Y,, and obtained a situa- 

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tion with the Albany (K. Y.) Argus. Mr. Manning was general 
manager of the Argus. In 1868 Mr. Fitzpatrick served as spe- 
cial messenger for Mr. Manning to Samuel J. Tilden between 
Albany and New York city during the presidential campaign of 
that year, and also to Governor Seymour, the nominee for presi- 
dent, who was defeated by General U. S. Grant. In 1870 Mr. 
Fitzpatrick removed to Detroit, Mich., where he went well 
recommended. He soon obtained a situation with W. E. Tunis 
& Co., printing and publishing house, and was made business 
manager of the Detroit Journal <tf Commerce and other general 
business of the firm. He worked in state directory business in 
Michigan, Canada and Western states for some time. In 1875 
Stephen A. Fitzpatrick founded the Oxford (Mich.) Demo- 
ocratic Times and conducted it in the interest of the Green- 
back party. He was several times elected delegate to state and 
county conventions, and tendered nomination for office, but de- 
clined to accept. In 1880 Mr. Fitzpatrick published the Detroit 
Sunday Democratic Herald and was backed up by Hon. Don 
M. Dickinson, late postn.aster general under President Cleve- 
land's first term, but sold out his interest and regain engaged in 
state directory work in the Southern States. In 1882 he came 
to Columbus, and has since worked for nearly all the Columbus 
newspapers and published several enterprises and campaign 
papers of his own. Stephen A. always regrets leaving Albany, 
N.Y. 

Mr, Fitzpatrick has been a strong temperance advocate for 
over two years past, and proposes to establish and assert those 
principles during the remainder of his life. In business he never 
allowed politics, religion or nationality to sway his judgment, but 
always endeavored to do what was right and honest by all men. 
In July, 1897, Stephen A. Fitzpatrick took interest in the cen- 
tennial movement, and published a paper called the Franklinton 
Centennial. The week after the celebration he perfected ar- 
rangements to publish a history of the centennial, and the same 
was announced in the Dispatch, Ohio State Journal, Columbus 
Press-Post and Westbote. Mr. Fitzpatrick has two living 
brothers, one at Colfax, Wash. ; one in Michigan, and many other 
relatives in different parts of the United States, Canada and 
Europe, 



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PROF. JAC0J3 A. SHAWAN, SUPERINTENDENT PUB- 
LIC SCHOOLS. 

riie superinteudeut of the Columbus public schools, J. A. 
Sliawau, is a Buckeye by birth and education. He was born at 
Wapakoneta, O., l)iit soon removed to Champaign county, where 
he attended the conniion schools of that county. We next find 
him in the high schools at Urbana, where, after attending some 
time, he quit to teach before graduation. He was a successful 
teacher in the scliools of Champaign county for four years. 
After this period he went to Oberlin, O., where he graduated 
with the degree of A. B. in 1880. Three years later the same 
institution granted him the degree of A. M. In 1893 the de- 
gree of Ph. D., honorary, was conferred upon him by Muskingum 
college. The career of Superintendent Shawan as an educator 
has been an interesting and a useful one. During the years 
1880-83 he was superintendent of the schools at St. Mary's, O. 
He next went to Mt. Vernon, where he remained until elected to 
the superintendency of the schools of this city in 1889. Since 
that period Mr. Shawan has been the honored head of the Co- 
lumbus schools and each year that has followed has witnessed his 
growth in the affections of scholars and teachers and his popular- 
ity with the people of the city at large. The schools under him 
have made marked progress and today Prof. Shawan is strongly 
intrenched in the regard and affection of the entire public. 

Mr. Shawan was married to Miss Jennie Xoch in December, 
1881, at DegraflF, O. The little family now consists of father 
and mother and three boys, Harold, 14; Robert, 12, and Jacob, 7. 



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CHRISTOPHER ROSS. 

Christopher Ross was born in Ballymote, Sligo county, Ire- 
land, December 25, 1851. He was the second son of James and 
Elizabeth Davis Ross, both of Scotch-Irish descent, whose an- 
cestors served on both land and sea for their country v^th dis- 
tinction. He attended the public school until the death of his 
father made it necessary for him to aid in the support of the 
family, which he did by working on the small farm and at his 
trade as a linen weaver, at which he became an expert at the age 
of 19. In June, 1869, hoping to better the fortunes of the fam- 
ily, he left his native land for Columbus, O., where he joined 
his brother, Thomas Ross, who had preceded him by two years. 
Soon after arriving in this city he found employment on the 
''Jim Hess" farm north of Columbus, which place he left for a 
position in the John L. Gill car works. He afterward became 
farm superintendent at the Imbecile Asylum, where he remained 
for 16 years. In 1890 he resigned his position at the asylum to 
go into the real estate business on the West Side of Columbus, 
and is considered the most energetic worker in the development 
of that section of the city. In 1893-94 he represented with credit 
the old Seventh and new Fourteenth ward in the city council. 
In politics he is an ardent Republican and takes pride in saying 
that he has voted for men on his ticket who have no peers in this 
or any other country in looking for the "Life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness" of the greatest people under the sun. 

"What little success in life he has had he attributes to the teach- 
ing and advice of good Christian parents, the keeping of regular 
hours, strict attention to business and economy. 



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SAMUEL A. KINNE^iE. 



Samuel Alexander Kinriear is the full name of the genial host 
of the Hotel Goodale, M'ho is known all over the county as Sam 
Kinnear. One reason for his being so very well known is the 
fact that from 1892 to 1894 his name, as county treasurer, ap- 
peared on every tax receipt that left the Franklin county court 
house. Such things have a tendency to make a man well known. 

Mr. Kinnear is essentially a Columbus man, having been born 
in that city on the 7th of January, 1858. His early education 
was also received tliere, although he took his degree from the 
University of Cincinnati. For his profession Mr. Kinnear chose 
that of civil engineer. He was for several years associated with 
Mr. J. E. Straun, the well-known engineer, and assisted that 
gentleman in layinp- out the Columbus and Gallipolis railroad. 
Tn 1870 he had charge of the improvement of ISTorth High street, 
with J. 1^. Burns. In 1879 Mr. Kinnear's father was elected 
sheriff and Sam entered his office as chief clerk. From 1881 until 
he was elected ti'casurer, he took contracts for streets and sewers, 
one of his biggest undertakings being the building of the North- 
west sewer in 1882, at a cost of $150,000. From 1889 to 1891 
he served the Fourth ward as councilman. 



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Althoiigli lie received tlie liigliest vote of any man on his 
ticket, Mr. Kinnear, with many other good men, was swept 
away by the McKinley cyclone of 1894, and he returned to 
bnsiness life, living his attention principally to real estate until 
Jnne, 1896, when he bought an interest in the Goodall House. 
Later he became sole proprietor and changed the name to the 
Hotel Groodale. 

Mr. Kinnear's face is well known in the lodge room, he being a 
member of \hv Shriners, Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of 
Pythias, Elks and Owls. In the last named order he holds the 
rank of sapient screecher. 

In 1880 Miss Clara A. Foster, daughter of the well-known 
contractor, Samuel G. Foster, who built many of the state canals, 
became the wife of Mr. Kinnear, and the union has been blessed 
with one daughter, Miss Clara F, Kinnear. 

Mr. Kinnear has been a life-long Democrat, but in spite of all 
political differences, has the esteem and respect of a host of 
friends in business and social circles. 





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Mill Jij ill iniiiiiliii Jlill 





NEW PROTESTANT HOSPITAL, 
North Side. Conducted by Christian Men and Women. 



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WM. S. TUSSING. 

During the great court house riot at Cincinnati in March, 1884, 
there was a young corporal in company H of the Fourteenth regi- 
ment from Canal Winchester, who has since become well known 
in Columbus. I'hat man was Mr. William S. Tussing. 

Mr. Tussing was born at Canal Winchester, O., of German 
parentage, in 1800. He also received his education in the public 
schools of that place. His life presented little out of the ordinary 
until he removed to the state capital in 1885. His first occupa- 
tion Avas that of insurance solicitor, which he, however, soon left 
to take a position with Simons Brothers' jewelry firm. In 1893 
Mr. Tussing bought out the business and formed a partnership 
with Mr. G. W. West, which still exists. In connection with the 
jewelry trade, the firm also conducts a general brokerage busi- 
ness, dealing in flour, stocks, real estate, bonds, etc. 

Mr. Tussing has taken an interest in politics ever since he was 
old enough to know what they meant, and has always been an 
ardent Democrat. He was a delegate to the state convention 
that nominated "M. L. -ISTeal for governor, and has also been a 
delegate to manv conventions of lesser importance. In 1896 he 
was nominated for the office of police clerk and defeated his op- 
ponent, a former incumbent. Colonel S. IT. Cook, by 1765 votes. 

Good society has always had a charm for Mr. Tussing, and that 
he is ever a welcome guest is e^ndenced by the large number of 
social organizations to which he belongs. He is a thirty-second 
degree Mason, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow,- a Knight of Pythias, an 
Elk, a Red Man and a member of the Olentangy Club, Thurman 
Club, "Nfaennerchor and Liederlcranz. 

In 1889 he married ]\riss Flla Wheeland, of Chillicothe, and 
the happy couple have resided in a cozy home at 15 Wisconsin 
avenue ever since their marriage. 



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OLIVER M. EVANS. 



Surrounded by boxes of lemons from snnny Ital}^, bunxihes of 
bananas from torrid America and barrels of potatoes from chilly 
Michigan, Mr. Oliver M. Evans is as cheerful and jovial as his 
life has been varied and eventful. 

He was born in the little village of Hai*risville, Harrison 
county, Ohio, March 10th, 1847, and like many another youth 
of his day went to school in a log cabin. His family lived for a 
few years at St. Clairsville, O., but when Oliver was ten years of 
age moved to Wheeling, W. Va., where young Evans attended 
the conmion schools. 

After completing his education, he started to learn the trade of 
marble cutter, but, seized with the war fever, he enlisted at the 
age of sixteen years in the Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 
His first big fight was Spottsylvania, after which he particpated in 
eleven hard-fought battles. He was badly wounded in the right 
log by the explosion of a mine before Petersburg, in consequence 



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nf which he went on cnitflies for more than two years. In 1879 
he drove to ('olnnil)us t'niiii StcuheiiviUe, and since that time Co- 
liiiiiliiis has heen liis home.. His tiivt l)usiness effort was in the 
ciimmission l)usiness, and so siiecessful has he heen that, although 
his start was vwy iiKuh'st, he lias recently done as much as $400,- 
000 woi-rh of business in a single year. 

It wMs not until lS',t,"> that A[r. Kvans was persiuided to take 
an active part in nolitics. I'pon the advice of friends he per- 
mitted his name to he used as a candidate for nuiyor and received 
the iKiinination hy 751) votes over the combined votes of three 
otliei- candidates. Xotwithstanding this fact, Mr. Evans was de- 
featc'l in the race for mayor by Mr. Cotton Allen, owing to a 
split in the Kejjublican party and the fact that Mr. D. E. Williams 
ran as an independent candidate. Mr. Evans says that one taste 
of politics is sufficient and he does not expect to tempt the fickle 
goddess again. 

Mr. Evans has heen a Methodist all his life and was for many 
years the superintendent of the Fifth Street Methodist church 
of Steubenville Sunday school. Besides his church connections 
he is affiliated with the Masons, Knights Templar, Red Men and 
Elks. He was also a member of the committee on privileges at 
the Franklinton centennial celebration, which committee assisted 
materially in raising the necessary funds for the celebration. 



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JUDGE WILLIAM T. MAETIN, 



Antlior of Martin's History of Franklin County, Ohio, was 
Ixirn in Bedford connty, rennsylvania, April 6, 1788; settled 
in Cohunbus, Ohio in the sprinc: of 181'5, where he continued 
to reside until his (h'atli, which occnrrcd on the 19th of Febru- 
ary, 1866. 

Dnrini;" his loni>- residence in Cohnnhns he was most highly 
esteemed and ludd many important offices, among which was 
that of Associate rhidge of the Court of Common Pleas of 
Fi-anklin County, under the old constitution of this state. His 
son, Hon. B. F. Martin, was one of the speakers at the Cen- 
tennial and resides in Columbus, Ohio. 



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GEN. C. C. WALCUTT. 



Major General Charles Carroll Walcutt was born in Colum- 
bus, O., February 12tli, 1838, son of John Macy and Mariel 
Brodrick Walcutt. John Macy Walcutt settled in Columbus in 
1815, coming from Loudon county, Virginia. He was a soldier 
of the war of 1812 and was the son of AVilliam Walcutt (Wol- 
cott), who was a soldier of the Revolution, having enlisted in 
Captain Levin Handy's company of (\)lonel Richardson's regi- 
ment in May, 1778, when 17 years of age, and served three 
years — and was pensioned for wounds received in battle. 

The maternal grandmother was first cousin to David Crocket. 
Mariel Walcutt was the mother of eleven children, Charles being 
the youngest. The eldest, William Walcutt, was a sculptor, and 
made the Perry monument at Cleveland, O. John Walcutt, the 
third son, was in the TJ. S. navy and was at the seige of Buena 
Vista in the Mexican war. 

General Walcutt was educated in the public schools of his 
native city, and at the Kentucky Military Institute, near Frank- 
fort, Ky., from which he graduated in June, 1858. He then 
entered upon the avocation of civil engineering and was elected 
county surveyor of Franklin county in 1859. 



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On the first call of troops in 18G1 he raised a company and 
went into camp on the ISth of April. In June, 1861, he was 
made major and assigned to the staff of General C. W. Hill in 
West Virginia. In August he was made major of the 46th 
Ohio Infantry, and it was through his efforts that great regiment 
was raised. He was made lieutenant colonel on January 30th, 
1862, and colonel October 16th, 1862, and was made a full 
brigadier general for gallantry in the battle of the 22d of July, 
1864, the day on which General McPherson was killed. 

General AValcutt. then colonel commanding his brigade, was 
ordered to retreat several times, but in disobedience of orders held 
his })osition, recei\dng the thanks of General Frank Blair for sav- 
ing his army corps. 

General Walcutt's service was most of the time with and 
under General Sherman, having reported to him at Paducah, 
Ky., in February, 1862. He was in the expedition up the Ten- 
nessee river to Pittsburg Landing, and v^«s in the battle of Shiloh, 
recei-^dng a severe wound in the left shoulder and still carries in 
him the bullet. He participated in the siege and campaign of 
Yicksburg, and the second battle of Jackson, Miss., in 1863. 
His command moved with General Sherman from Yicksburg to 
the relief of Chattanooga and was in the two days' fight at Mis- 
sionary Ridge, November 25th and 26th, 1863, taking command 
of his brigade during the battle after General Corsa was carried 
from the field. His command was in the column of Sherman that 
went to the relief of General Burnside at Knoxville, Tenn. 

His brigade wintered at Scottsboro, Ala., 1863 and 1864. He 
had three reg-iments — Sixlh Iowa, Fortieth Illinois, and the 
Forty-sixth Ohio, eligible to re-enlist as veterans, all of whom 
re-enlisted on the 4th of January, 1864, the Forty-sixth Ohio 
returning from their veteran furlough only a few days before 
Sherman started on the Atlanta cam]iaign. On this campaign 
Walcutt's brigade took a very im])ortant and active part, being 
the Second Brigade, Fourth Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, 
under General Logan. 

It was in the heaviest of the fighting during that memorable 
campaign — Dallas 2Yth and 28th of May; at Burnt Hickory, 
Noonday Creek, June 15th, near Kennesaw mountain, where it 



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assaulted and captured an entire rebel brigade. It led the as- 
sault <.»n Kennesavv mountain June i^Tth in front of the Army of 
the Tennessee. It performed a most conspicuous part in the 
battle of the 22d of July, when, in disobedience of orders, Colonel 
Waleutt held his position. The brigade took a very important 
part in the battle of Ezra Chapel on the 28th day of July. 

It was in the battle of Jonesboro and at Lovejoy Station, and 
at the close of the Atlanta campaign, during which time it was 
under tire 120 days and nights. Walcutt's brigade formed a part 
of the column that went from ''Atlanta to the Sea/' tighting the 
only battle on that famous trip. This was at Griswoldville, 
al)out ten miles east of Maeon, Ga., where Hardee had a large 
force. He only took with him a portion of his brigade, 1300 
muskets and two pieces of artillery. After reaching Griswold- 
\iile, tighting Wheeler's cavalry all day, and destroying con- 
siderable property, was returning, when he was attacked by the 
(xeorgia troops, about 10,000 strong, with six pieces of artillery. 
Waleutt was advised to retreat by his division commander, but 
his usual pertinacity becoming dominant, he remained and 
fought. Xever in any battle was any enemy more severely 
l)unished; his loss was sinij)ly terrible, more, a great deal, than 
AValeutt had in his entire command. Walcutt's loss was 15 
killed and To wounded. In this engagement Waleutt received 
a severe shell wound in the right leg and was carried the balance 
of the way, 300 miles, to Savannah in a captured carriage. 

After his partial recovery he was assigned to the command of 
the First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, until the close of 
the war — passing in front of the president in the grand review 
at Washington in May, 1865, mustering it out at Louisville, Ky., 
in July, 1865. He was mustered out February 6th, 1866. 
Soon after he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Tenth 
r. S. cavalry and accepted — reporting at Fort Leavenworth, 
Kas. He resigned that position December 1st, 1866, unwilling 
to endure army life in time of peace. In May, 1869, General 
Grant appointed him LT. S. collector of revenue for the Seventh 
District of Ohio, which position he held until July 1st, 1883. 

In 1873 he was elected a member of the board of education of 
rolumbus, serving until April 1st, 1894, during which time he 



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served as its president seven years. During all this time he de- 
voted himself to building up and making efficient the public 
schools of Columbus, and to General Walcutt the Columbus 
schools owe much of their present high standing. The Public 
School Library, with its most beautiful and commodious build- 
ing and well-selected library, was built during this time. In this 
library General Walcutt has taken a deej) interest, and to his 
energy and zeal is largely due its success. In April, 1883, k? 
was elected mayor of (j'olumbus, serving two terms, retiring in 
April, 1887. 

(Jeneral AValcutt since the war has been an active Republican 
and intiuential in the councils of that party. He served on the 
state executive committee from 18()9 till 187^, the second Grant 
campaign, when he was made chairman of the committee and con- 
tributed to the election of his personal friend, General Grant, to 
the presidency the second time. lie was one of the Grant 
electors in 1868 and a delegate to the national convention in 
Philadelphia in 1872. 

He was a member and president of th(> Franklin County Ag- 
riculture Society for many years. He is a member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic and a charter member of the Ohio Com- 
mandery of the Loyal Legion, and was one of the senior vice 
commanders. 

General Walcutt as a soldier was brave and efficient, com- 
manding the respect of his superior officers and the warm per- 
sonal friendship of Generals Grant and Sherman. As a citizen 
he has been devoted to the advancement of the best interests of 
humanity, and active, zealous and true to the performance of 
those duties entrusted to his care. 

He came from a line of soldiers representing the Revolution- 
ary war, the War of 1812, the Mexican war, the War of the 
Rebellion, and his son, Charles C. Walcutt, jr., is a graduate of 
the IT. S. Military Academy at West Point, and is now an officer 
in the Eighth IT. S. Cavalry. 



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HON. BEXJAMIX F. GAYMAN. 



Tiopresentative B. F. Gayman, of Franklin county, has ac- 
(inircd valuable legislative experience. In 1891 lie was elected 
a mcuiber of the Seventieth General Assembly of Ohio. He was 
renominated in 1893, but was defeated in a landslide that over- 
whelmed the Democratic party that year. He was again re- 
nominated as one of the Democratic candidates in 1895, and to- 
gether with his colleagues in Franklin county, was elected, not- 
withstanding that nearly every other county in the state made 
large Republican gains. Mr. Gayman served as a member of 
tlie S(>venty-socond Ohio General Assembly' with such satisfac- 
tion to the public that he was renominated for the third time and 



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elected in 1897, his majority being 1946. In all his official acts 
he has received a most flattering indorsement and distinction 
rarely accorded by the people of Franklin county to one of their 
servants. His record challenges the closest scrutiny. He has al- 
ways championed the cause of the common people, being espe- 
cially active and earnest in his support of all measures for the ad- 
vancement of the interests of those who toil. Hon. B. F. Gay- 
man is editor and proprietor of the Winchester Times, 

Mr. Gayman was born at Canal Winchester, O., in 1858. 
After passing through the High school in 1875, he became an 
apprentice in the Times office, meantime continuing his studies 
under a private instructor. He studied law in this way for a 
period, but love for the printing trade led him to decide against 
adopting the legal profession. He bought an interest in the 
"Times" in 1879, returning from Columbus, where he had gone 
to hnish his trade, and later became sole owner of the Times — 
a weekly newspaper. Mr. Gayman served in the village council 
of Canal Winchester and was afterward elected mayor of that 
town four successive terms without opposition. In every public 
duty he has ]3roved conscientious and fearless. As a member of 
the Seventy-second General Assembly he fought and voted 
against the fifty-year franchise bill. "Only twenty-four mem- 
bers of the house," said the Cincinnati Tribune (Republican), 
"had the courage and patriotism to vote against this bill. Their 
names will constitute the roll of honor of the Seventy-second 
General Assembly. We cannot pay tribute too often to their 
honesty and self-respect." Mr. Gayman's name was in the list 
which ajtpeared in the Tribune. 



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AL. G. FIELD. 



I'be world-renowned minstrel, Alfred Griffith Hatfield, 
better known to the public as AL G. Field, was born in Loudon 
County, Virginia. Shortly after his birth the Hatfields 
moved to Columbus, where they have since resided. 
At the early age of fourteen years, he being an aspirant 
to the amusement profession, he secured a part in Sam Sharpley's 
minstrels as a song and dance artist. This was against the 
wishes of his parents, who were strenuously antagonistic to his 
adopting that profession as a means of making a livelihood. It 
became necessar)^ for Mr. Field to adopt a nom de guerre for 
both private and professional reasons. On his search for and 
the discovery of a pseudonym there hang a number of stories, 
more or less fictitious. One runs like this: While riding in a 
railway coach, Mr. Field, upon looking out of the window, had 
the misfortune to see his hat go spinning through the air. To 
his mind, always ready to see the humorous side of things, the 
incident is said to have suggested the dropping of the first syl- 
lable of his name. At any rate, Mr. Field, with his characteristic 
drollery, simply removed his hat, thereby creating the name 
of Al. G. Field, a name which has become a powerful factor 

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in tke American form of entertainment styled "minstrelsy." Over 
the vast amount of country that he has traveled, very few people 
know him except by his nom de guerre; and there is probably 
no minstrel who has a better and wider acquaintance than Mr. 
Pield, for he is as jolly as he is rotund and applauded everywhere 
for his originaHty. But he is more than a minstrel; he is a 
manager as well, being one of the few men who, year after 
year, in good times and bad, have kept two companies on the 
road and brought them to the end of the season with a balance 
on the right side of the ledger. That he has been able to do this 
and at the same time appear nightly upon the stage, the most 
jolly of the lot, has been a marvel to all who have known the 
circumstances. 

As a public-spirited citizen of Columbus, Mr. Field ranks 
high. A keen observer of movements of a public character, he 
has been an active promoter of all that seemed to prosper and 
promote the interests of the city. He has freely given of his time 
and money and talent to improve the business conditions of 
the city, and there are many local charities that know him 
for the good that he has done. Latterly, Mr. Field has appeared 
in the role of the writer of occasional letters to the newspapers — 
letters in which he discoursed of politics, business conditions and 
prospects of the various sections of the country he has visited. 
In these letters he has shown a keenness of observation and an 
excellence of judgment given to comparatively few men who, 
travel for another and entirely distinct purpose, and they have 
been widely read, copied and commented upon. Altogether, Mr. 
Field is one of the most populai' and at the same time one of 
the most loyal citizens of Columb, is. 



